How to host a Node.Js application in shared hosting

[joe merial]

Hello folks,

How to host a Node.Js application in shared hosting ??

If so how did you approach the solution?

[glamservices]

Shared hosting is not at all a good idea , But still i would like to say that for node.js websites hosting quie difficult.

[JoeEvans]

Shared hosting is good when you begin if you have not much capital.

[arianagrand]

You can run node.js server on a typical shared hosting with Linux, Apache and PHP (LAMP).

[chloe_k]

You can run node.js server on a typical shared hosting with Linux, Apache and PHP (LAMP). I have successfully installed it, even with NPM, Express and Grunt working fine.

Follow the steps:
1) Create a new PHP file on the server with the following code and run it:
<?php
//Download and extract the latest node
exec('curl http://nodejs.org/dist/latest/node-v...nux-x86.tar.gz | tar xz');
//Rename the folder for simplicity
exec('mv node-v0.10.33-linux-x86 node');2) The same way install your node app, e.g. jt-js-sample, using npm:
<?php
exec('node/bin/npm install jt-js-sample');3) Run the node app from PHP:
<?php
//Choose JS file to run
$file ='node_modules/jt-js-sample/index.js';
//Spawn node server in the background and return its pid
$pid =exec('PORT=49999 node/bin/node '. $file .' >/dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!');
//Wait for node to start up
usleep(500000);
//Connect to node server using cURL
$curl = curl_init('http://127.0.0.1:49999/');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER,1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
//Get the full response
$resp = curl_exec($curl);
if($resp ===false){
//If couldn't connect, try increasing usleep
echo 'Error: '. curl_error($curl);
}else{
//Split response headers and body
list($head, $body)= explode("\r\n\r\n", $resp,2);
$headarr = explode("\n", $head);
//Print headers
foreach($headarr as $headval){
header($headval);
}
//Print body
echo $body;
}
//Close connection
curl_close($curl);
//Close node server
exec('kill '. $pid);