How To Set Up a Node.js Application for Production on Ubuntu

Thank you for the article, it’s very useful. I’d like to know what should be the Nginx setup if I wanted the second app accessed not through https://example.com/app2 but through https://example2.com? How to use different domains for different apps?

Why PM2 instead of systemctl?

Great tutorial! I have a WordPress site at /var/www/example.com/html (NGINX PHP) and I want my NodeJS apps to run in /var/www/example.com/html/nodejsapps How shall I do that?

Please could you explain the correct way to set up environment variables in production?

I have several sites/apps on the same Ubuntu 20.04 server with NGINX server blocks. The NodeJS apps are using different versions on NodeJS. Anyone who has experience/advice on how to install/configure nvm, volta or nvs in production to switch node versions and use different node versions for respective apps on the same Ubuntu server?

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I followed the instructions exactly and for some reason nodejs -v did not work but node -v did.

Thank you for this useful tutorial.

It’s possible to have one for Apache2 ?

Hi, thanks for the tutorial, it’s working great. However, I would like to be able to access the application from other computers on the LAN the server belongs to. At the moment, when I point to the IP of the server, I’m redirected to a standard Nginx landing page instead of the Node.js app. I guess there is an option in the server blocks to exclude an IP range ?

Hey guys are these tutorials still accurate? Visiting an http://your_domain in a browser gets refused because they use https by default now. I’ve used curl and I’m getting my content back but it doesn’t work in a browser. Am I correct?