I'm very new to node.js and don't have much knowledge about servers.
I made a node app and started it in my server (who has some other websites in php, so it needs to work with apache) using node server.js &.
It was working great, and it kept running until the next day, when I got the 503 error. Got into my server again using ssh and noticed it wasn't working, so I started again with nodemon running nodemon server.js &.
Same thing, several hours later I got 503 error again.
The steps I followed:
1. created the website folder inside /var/www/
2. created the website configuration inside /etc/apache2/sites-available/ (mysite.com.conf file showed bellow)
3. enabled the site using e2ensite
5. ran cerbot for SLL certificate
6. reloaded apache
7. started the app with nodemon server.js > log.out &
I created the mysite.com.conf as seen bellow:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin user@MAINDOMAIN.com
ServerName MYSITE.MAINDOMAIN.com
ServerAlias www.MYSITE.MAINDOMAIN.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/MYSITE.MAINDOMAIN.com/public
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<Directory "/var/www/MYSITE.MAINDOMAIN.com/public">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:7000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:7000/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =MYSITE.MAINDOMAIN.COM [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.MYSITE.MAINDOMAIN.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI}
[END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
And my server.js file looks like this:
const express = require('express')
const mysql = require('mysql')
const app = express()
//mysql database connection here
//some app.get() here to render pages
const server = app.listen(7000, () => {
console.log('Express running on port ${server.address().port}');
});
The last message I got in the log.out it's app crashed - waiting for file changes before starting.
How can I keep this running? Did I do something wrong?
