System Information
- Strapi Version: 3.5.3
- Operating System: Linux (Ubuntu 20.04)
- Database: MySQL 5.6
- Node Version: 12.21.0
- NPM Version: 6.14.11
Hi,
Apologies in advance for the long post, but I hope it does provide you, the reader, with all the required info to help me with my issue.
I’ve been trying to deploy Strapi to an AWS EC2 instance for about a day now, without success. Pulling in the repo and building it on the server with the build command goes just fine, but when I try to start the application I keep receiving the following error:
error Error: listen EADDRNOTAVAIL: address not available [IP address]:1337
Where “IP address” is the public IPv4 address of the server.
I’ve tried:
- installing
pm2to run the application - running
npm startfrom the root of the directory - running
node [/absolute/path/to/directory]/server.jsafter installing aserver.jsfile conform the docs.
The steps I’ve taken so far ar as follows:
- I’ve created an A-record in my DNS provider pointing the domain name to the server IP address
- I’ve created a
.envfile with aPORT,HOSTandAPP_URLvalue for Strapi’sconfig/server.js - I’ve adapted the default Nginx config file that comes with my deployment service provider (Laravel Forge) for Node.js, to listen to HTTP requests on Strapi’s default port :1337
- I’ve configured the webroot for Strapi to be
/build. This made sense to me since theindex.htmlfile is located there, as well as all the compiled JS etc. However, in different forum posts I’ve also seen/publicused as webroot. Maybe this is due to differences in version?
I’ve had no issues deploying and running a different Node.js-based application from the same server, but I can’t even get the Strapi app to run… Please help?
Kind regards,
Yoeri
P.S. Below I’ve pasted my config/server.js, .env and Nginx conf (created by Laravel Forge, adapted to work with Node (the “location /” block, specifically)) with sensitive info (domain name and credentials) redacted:
server.js
module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
host: env('HOST', '0.0.0.0'),
port: env.int('PORT', 1337),
url: env('APP_URL'),
admin: {
auth: {
secret: env('ADMIN_JWT_SECRET', 'secret-admin-jwt-default-value'),
},
},
});
.env
NODE_ENV=production
HOST=domain-name
PORT=1337
APP_URL=http://domain-name
DATABASE_HOST=rds-database-endpoint
DATABASE_PORT=3306
DATABASE_NAME=strapi
DATABASE_USERNAME=dbuser
DATABASE_PASSWORD=dbpassword
DATABASE_SSL=false
Nginx
# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/domain-name/before/*;
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name domain-name;
server_tokens off;
root /home/forge/domain-name/build;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/domain-name/server/*;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:1337; # Port number of node http server
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;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/domain-name-error.log error;
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}
}
# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/content.wopp.nl/after/*;