Deploy Node.js applications of AWS Lightsail Nginx instance

Regraz 2020-12-25 13:16:50 UTC #1

Keywords: Nginx - AWS - How to - Other
Description:
I am trying to deploy my node.js app on my Lightsail Nginx instance. The app runs good in localhost but I have met difficulties in setting up reverse proxy.

I understand that bitnami uses a different structure so there is no sites-available etc., according to https://community.bitnami.com/t/where-is-sites-available-and-sites-enabled-in-nginx-of-bitnami/63662

But in my case there is also no bitnami.conf in /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami so I am not sure what should I do now... Also are there any tutorials of deploying node.js apps in nginx instances with bitnami?

By the way I also noticed the absence of bitnami.conf when I try to force HTTPS redirection, so I end up having to edit the nginx.conf instead of bitnami.conf to acheive that.

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Regraz 2020-12-26 01:11:32 UTC #2

Further investigation I found this in nginx.conf:

include "/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/*.conf";

So that means my node.js apps should be in /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/ instead of somewhere else suggested by other tutorials like sites-available or etc/apps ? Sorry new to this thing.

Regraz 2020-12-26 06:18:09 UTC #3

After hours of research I find some tutotial here https://github.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-nginx which applies for my case (no bitnami.conf, no bitnami/apps etc..) I guess that is because I am not using self contained version of bitnami so...

sadly the tutorial above is so hard to find...

jcarmona 2020-12-28 08:57:28 UTC #4

Hi @Regraz

Thanks for using Bitnami NGINX!

The raw version of the Bitnami NGINX stack does not ship with conf/bitnami.conf, that is why you could not find it there. If you are considering deploying Node.JS applications in a easy way, just to let you know that we have a stack ready for that task (though this uses Apache instead of NGINX):

sadly the tutorial above is so hard to find...

Thanks for the feedback, I will let the documentation team know of this.

Best regards,
Jose Antonio Carmona

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Regraz 2020-12-28 12:29:14 UTC #6

Yes, if I was using the node.js stack that would have been much easier.

Actually what I would like to mention is that, it would be awesome if there can be some guide on deploying node.js applications with the nginx stack. Or at least there could be some documentation describing the structure of the nginx stack.

Becausre sometimes it is hard for users to switch between different stacks and my situation is like that (because my AWS Lightsail uses NGINX instance (Bitnami Nginx Stack) and I am really new to website development thingy.)

I am glad after spending days of effort and numerous trials and errors and detours, I finally figure out and solve the issue by myself, but if only there was one tutorial or docunmentation things will be much easier... especially for newcomers to the community)

jcarmona 2020-12-29 09:03:48 UTC #7

Thanks again for the feedback!

Just to let you know that we indeed have some documentation regarding the Bitnami NGINX Stack available in here:
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/infrastructure/nginx/

though, we are always striving to improve!

Best regards,
Jose Antonio Carmona

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system 2021-01-12 09:03:51 UTC #8

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