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How To Deploy Your Node.js App On AWS With NGINX And SSL

Shadid Haque on March 29, 2021

Photo by Bill Jelen on Unsplash Originally published in my blog In this tutorial, we will briefly go over the process of deploying a Node.js/...
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Stephen Saliba •

I tried many similar articles, but many failed, yours is the best I found. Thank you a lot.

May I just point out to a tiny typo: in the nginx installation command, 'Nginx' should be in lower case, the below does not work:

sudo apt install Nginx
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Anyway, you earned a follower.

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Shadid Haque •

Thank you Stephen. I totally missed that one. Glad that I could help 😀

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Floor •

Thank you for the great article ! Could you explain how to setup env variables on the created instance ? I couldn't find a clear answer ... Thank you !!

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Abdur Rehman Khalid •

What an awesome article this is. It has Helped me a lot and I am bookmarking this article so that I can come here again and again. Thank you and I will also be implementing the same technique with deployment of the Angular Application as well.

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Shadid Haque •

Thank you, means a lot. Feel free to reach out on twitter.com/haqueshadid

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Marlon • • Edited

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing the insight. I look forward to coming back to this every now and then!

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BonaparteIT •

After command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot

The PPA has been DEPRECATED.

To get up to date instructions on how to get certbot for your systems, please see certbot.eff.org/docs/install.html.
More info: launchpad.net/~certbot/+archive/ub...

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ashad nasim •

Awesome Article, but for Nginx part, your article is not correct. The correct way is

  1. Install NGINX and configure sudo apt install nginx

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
Add the following to the location part of the server block

server_name yourdomain.com yourdomain.com;


location / {

    proxy_pass localhost:5000; #whatever port your app runs on

    proxy_http_version 1.1;

    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;

    proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';

    proxy_set_header Host $host;

    proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;

}
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Check NGINX config

sudo nginx -t

Restart NGINX

sudo service nginx restart

Taken from gist.github.com/bradtraversy/cd90d...

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Abayomi Ogunnusi •

Thank you and God bless you.... I am really happy for this.

It worked like charm

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akdenied • • Edited

nginx -t fails
I think because

server {
    server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8000; # your app's port
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}
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Boris •

In the DNS step, you have set TTL to be 300. However, when I try that on my custom domain name manager, it says that TTL "should be higher or equal to 3600." Can you provide any more information about that?

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MD Mohsin Ghazi •

Getting this after configuring all configuration on EC2-instance
"ErrorResponse is not defined"