如何将我电脑上当前的 node.js 开发设置部署到物理 ubuntu 服务器？

Question

I have a node.js server app with rest api developed on my laptop right now and obviously I am able see the app on the web @ http://localhost on my laptop. Now I am trying to deploy this backend server to a physical linux server machine for further development. I will be testing on that physical server through ssh and I have already git cloned the project into the linux server. So, now how can I set it to be able to view the http responses on the web on my laptop(because currently I'm only testing @locahost)? Also how can I use api development application such as POSTMAN with the physical server from my laptop?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

First, from your comments we know your server have apache installed, so that page you see when navigating to http://[server IP] should be a index.html file located at /var/www/html/ . This is probably where you want to put your cloned files. Anything above html/ folder is not accessible to the browser.

Of course you need nodejs installed. If it's not already installed, via ssh , use:

sudo apt-get install nodejs

Maybe you will need other things to install such as POSTMAN, but you'll see that installing things on ubuntu is really easy, and very well documented on the web.