Host and Deploy a Node / Express app on AWS Lightsail (VPS) with a Custom Domain and SSL 

You're very welcome!

You can also use vm editor in lightshail terminal

I have the same question. I hope some one could help us on that

9:45, this should be all that you need to do, perhaps there was a typo here (in the domain itself or the option to allow http --> https? ) however - I have seen times where it took me a few hours for this to go through the system :T There is no harm on redoing this step, so i would try this again! Also check that the domain names in the DNS zone are the same as the ones you used while creating the certificate (step 4 here) lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-using-lets-encrypt-certificates-with-wordpress#add-a-text-record-to-your-domains-dns-zone-lets-encrypt-wordpress or 2:16 in the video

@@joswayski Hm..Don't seem to be any typos and I've remade the process multiple times and also waited a day, but still not working (but if I write the https address manually it works fine) so it's just the redirect that isn't working

Hello @@alexlindgren1. Did you solve this? I am having the same problem.

@@rosewanjohi Yes. I posted a thread on the bitnami forum and got help, here is it if you have any use of it: community.bitnami.com/t/automatic-renewal-not-working-failed-and-https-redirection-not-working/91776/11

Thank you so much!

hey sorry for the late response! Can you check this link here and see if it fixes your problem? stackoverflow.com/a/68781050

@@joswayski no worries! Unfortunately the project was due a while ago and I ended up not using AWS so I don’t currently have the instance set up. Thank you for your helpful video otherwise, and your response.

rm -rf* deletes everything in that directory. What error are you receiving when doing npm install? It could be that you didnt change the directory into the folder of your app!

Then you have two options, or install mysql-server on instance with template chosen, or you can chose "OS Only" select prefered OS, example Ubuntu and instal NodeJS and msql-server only, most likely you will need to install and configure nginx or apache too.

It can be accessed by the URL and it will show up on google if the google algorithms pick it up, for that there are many things that you can do, including paying for advertisements. Check out these links here:support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34397?hl=en www.wix.com/blog/2018/10/how-to-get-your-business-found-on-google

Bitnam is using apache on the server, we are using node & express

Unfortunately I do not have experience with wordpress :( I am sorry that I cannot assist

Hey where you able to figure it out? This doesn't seem to be a forever issue but your server might have trouble parsing the incoming request (JSON) and crashing

@@joswayski hi, replying on my personal account. It did seem to be a forever issue as it worked just running it from the node command so I have set a systemd command to keep it running and no issues anymore

@@joswayski Hi, ive had to use a systemd command as even with the support of some amazon guru's there were baffled as to why it stopped working.

If you are hosting just a static site (HTMl and CSS), please ignore this video. I'm not familiar with Atom, however, I'm going to take a guess and say that you are pretty new to this and would recommend you use a tool like these to host your site: pages.github.com/ www.netlify.com/ Here is a tutorial: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QyFcl_Fba-k.html

Link is fixed! Thanks for letting me know :) docs.bitnami.com/aws/infrastructure/nodejs/administration/create-custom-application-nodejs/

You certainly can, I wouldn't recommend it though as it will make the setup / networking more complicated. Here is a tutorial for EC2 medium.com/@nitin.malhotra/deploy-single-multiple-node-js-750ee6fee782 Regarding your other comment regarding rate limits(?), there is no rate limiting your server is open to the public internet. You could use Cloudflare or AWS Waf + Cloudfront in front of your instance for rate limiting.

@@joswayski it's basically just changing ports ?

@@hackerhubnft7675 Yea, each app will run on a different port on the same server. The link i posted walks you through step by step and how to map the domain to each port in the proxy configuration

Make sure to set the second port (443) which takes incoming https traffic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rtshCulV2hk.html

@@joswayski hi I did that, but it wasn’t working. I found out how to force redirect to it and it is working now

Its at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rtshCulV2hk.html 8:51 in the video

I do not recommend this for a react app front end, use something like this instead: github.com/serverless-components/website

@@joswayski I agree, but i already did. the question is how to make the "forever start" command for npm start

Which part is confusing? A lot of the other comments all say the exact opposite maybe I can clear something up and add annotations?