How to Setup Node and Express on Amazon Web Services EC2

How to Setup Node and Express on Amazon Web Services EC2 1) Make an account on Amazon Web Services http://aws.amazon.com/ 2) Create a vanilla Ubuntu micro EC2 instance 3) Security Open HTTP, HTTPS, Port 8080, and Port 9000 4) Launch the instance and save the pem file (private key) 5) Make sure that pem file has correct permissions chown :Users node.pem chmod 600 node.pem 5) Update Ubuntu and install these packages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libssl-dev g++ make 6) http://nodejs.org/download/ (Get node source files) wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.32/node-v0.10.32.tar.gz 7) Extract the packed tar.gz and change directory tar -xvf node-v0.10.32.tar.gz cd node-v0.10.32 8) Execute the binaries, make, and install ./configure && make && sudo make install 9) cd ../ mkdir test1 cd test1 vim test1.js (Insert is to edit as esc :x is to save) 10) var http = require('http'); var port = 9000; http.createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end('Hello there, world!\n'); }).listen(port); console.log('Listening on port', port); 11) node test1.js (to run the javascript file on node) CTRL+C to exit command nohup node test1.js & (to run as a background process - no hiccup) ps -ef (to check all background processes) kill id_number 12) cd /home/ubuntu sudo npm install express 13) mkdir test2 vim test2.js var express = require('express'); var app = express(); app.get('/', function (req, res){ res.send('Hello there, world!\n'); }); var port = 9000; app.listen(port); console.log('Listening on port', port); 14) Reroute IP Tables so that javascript file also displays on port 80 sudo iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 9000 Twitter: https://twitter.com/microwavesam