What is Node.js

• Node.js is an application server based off of Google's V8 Javascript Engine. Quite a few popular frameworks have popped up around Node.js such as AngularJS and Backbone.js.

How

Request a port

• Request a ProxiedServer port on bog as described in FirewallRules

Get Node.js

• Make a directory for your website

     1 mcarberry@bog:~$ mkdir ~/public_web/sitename
     2 mcarberry@bog:~$ mkdir ~/public_web/sitename/nodejs
     3 mcarberry@bog:~$ cd ~/public_web/sitename
  

  Download Node.js

     1 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename$ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.26/node-v0.10.26.tar.gz
     2 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename$ tar -xf node-v0.10.26.tar.gz 
     3 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename$ cd node-v0.10.26/
  

Build Node.js

•    1 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/node-v0.10.26$ ./configure 
     2 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/node-v0.10.26$ make
     3 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/node-v0.10.26$ make install DESTDIR=~/public_web/sitename/nodejs
  

  Cleanup Install Directory

     1 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/node-v0.10.26$ cd ../nodejs/
     2 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/nodejs$ cp -r usr/local/* .
     3 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/nodejs$ rm -r usr
     4 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename/nodejs$ cd ..
     5 mcarberry@bog:~/public_web/sitename$ rm -r node-v0.10.26/
  

Test Install

• Change the port in this script (gleaned from here) to the one requested in the firewall rules and place it in ~/public_web/sitename/.

     1 var http = require('http');
     2 http.createServer(function (req, res) {
     3   res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
     4   res.end('Hello Node.js\n');
     5 }).listen(8124, "127.0.0.1");
     6 console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');