We are going to deploy a node.js application using nginx as a reverse web server proxy. I assume this is a newly created instance with no prior configurations. This tutorial is also backend server agnostic; you can use express or what ever server tool is out there for your node.js application.

• Do this in your aws console

• add a rule to your security group for HTTTP and the default port should be 80. Save the new rule.

• follow the connect to instance guide on the aws console

$ sudo adduser <USERNAME> sudo

$ sudo yum install nginx

$ sudo chkconfig --level 345 nginx on

$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;
        #server_name  your-ip-address;
        root         /usr/share/nginx/html;

        #charset koi8-r;

        #access_log  /var/log/nginx/host.access.log  main;

        location / {
		proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
		proxy_http_version 1.1;
		proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
		proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
		proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
        }

• For this we are forwarding to port 8080 as localhost
• This part might look different for you but the location section should have these proxy settings. Nginx should be configured to listen to server 80 by default

$ sudo service nginx restart

$ sudo wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.1/install.sh | sudo bash

• Check here for details

$ sudo nvm install 5.9

• might be installed with current version of node via nvm

$ npm install -g pm2 --unsafe-perm

• either create a simple server to ftp your project to the instance
• make node server listen on port 8080, thats where we are forwarding requests to

$ pm2 start server.js

• don't forget to run npm install at the root of your project folder

• add aws ip address to browser

Tutorial to deploy node on nginx to aws