How do i move a sails app to the host?

[egucciar]

Im completely new to node.js wondering how i can get my app on a host (appFrog)

[mikermcneil]

Hi Erica,

You'll want to take advantage of a tool that 'resurrects' your server if it crashes. @techpines is working on bundling forever so you can run Sails as a daemon with sails lift -d in the next release.

In the mean time, here's how you deploy in production mode:

• In your project folder, create a file called app.js:

// app.js
require('sails').lift();

• Install forever: sudo npm install -g forever
• Run your app with forever: forever start app.js

More about forever: https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever

Other things you'll likely want to do in production:

• configure your app to run on port 80
• put it in "production" mode so that all of your css/js gets bundled up
• use mySQL

More on that here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK-tFvpIR7c

The big omission from that video is that, if you plan on keeping your app running (which you probably do!), you'll need to follow the steps mentioned above to use forever.

Getting your app on the server

Is your Node.js instance on appFrog spun up? When you have the ip address, you can go ahead and ssh onto it, then sudo npm install -g sails forever to install Sails and forever for the first time.

Then git clone your project (or scp it onto the server if it's not in a git repo) into a new folder on the server and cd into it, and forever start app.js

Hope that helps!

[mikermcneil]

@dcbartlett Would you be down to turn this into a how-to wiki page?

[mikermcneil]

@eguciar Hey Erica, I hope that got you sorted. Please feel free to reach out in the IRC or google group if you need more help! I'm going to close this issue. I also posted the resolution here:

https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/wiki/Guide:-Deployment

[AnvarPK]

can i clone sail project to ftp server