I believe in Google products, so it’s thus quite naturally that I use Google Cloud Platform to host my websites, apps, etc. GCP proposes a lot of pre-configured images for all your needs: blog, os, database, crm, or developer tools and infra like:
- Jenkins
- GitLab
- Trac
- NodeJS
- MEAN
- MySQL
- Ruby
- Cassandra
Images are delivered with all the tools you need to work efficiently! For example, the MEAN stack came with MongoDB, NodeJS, Express, Git, etc.
Well 🙂
But, a little configuration is needed to make your app listening on your custom port (3000 for example)
Steps
- Launch your server SSH console from Google Cloud Platform (Bitnami)
- Clone the project under /home/user/apps/
- Open up port 3000 in your Google Compute Network Firewall : Your VMs > Edit > Network > Click on default
- Launch your own project on port 3000 (using your favorite grunt/node server command) and test if http://SERVER_IP:3000 works ? If it’s OK, go to step 5
- Edit the file opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf and replace the content with the configuration below (it’s only a proxy pass to route your server to the 3000 port)
Virtual Host Configuration
<IfVersion < 2.3 >
NameVirtualHost *:80
NameVirtualHost *:443
</IfVersion>
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
# DocumentRoot "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs"
# <Directory "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs">
# Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
# AddLanguage en en
# LanguagePriority en
# ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
# AllowOverride All
# <IfVersion < 2.3 >
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
# </IfVersion>
# <IfVersion >= 2.3 >
# Require all granted
# </IfVersion>
# </Directory>
# Error Documents
ErrorDocument 503 /503.html
# Bitnami applications installed with a prefix URL (default)
# Include "/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-prefix.conf"
# Redirect to port 3000 (proxy pass)
ServerAdmin youremail@gmail.com
ServerName yourservername.fr
ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/
ProxyPreserveHost On
</VirtualHost>
# Default SSL Virtual Host configuration.
<IfModule !ssl_module>
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
</IfModule>
Listen 443
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3
SSLHonorCipherOrder on
SSLCipherSuite "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS !EDH !RC4"
SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin
SSLSessionCache "shmcb:/opt/bitnami/apache2/logs/ssl_scache(512000)"
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
DocumentRoot "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs"
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile "/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key"
<Directory "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs">
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AddLanguage en en
LanguagePriority en
ForceLanguagePriority Prefer Fallback
AllowOverride All
<IfVersion < 2.3 >
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</IfVersion>
<IfVersion >= 2.3 >
Require all granted
</IfVersion>
</Directory>
# Error Documents
ErrorDocument 503 /503.html
# Bitnami applications installed with a prefix URL (default)
Include "/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-prefix.conf"
</VirtualHost>
# Bitnami applications that uses virtual host configuration
Include "/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami-apps-vhosts.conf"
# Status
ExtendedStatus on
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
ServerName local-stackdriver-agent.stackdriver.com
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
- Restart apache with this command sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
- Now check your server IP in your favorite browser (chrome probably?), and your project should run there.
