Question

I have been trying to figure out why i cant get even the most basic Node.js application to run, all day. I have installed Node on my Media Temple (dv) server in the root using PuTTy NOT on my local machine.

When i do ‘node –version’ it shows me the version, which tells me that Node is correctly installed. However when i attempt to do the basic ‘HTTP’ example it doesnt work when i go to http://mysite.com:1337, instead the connection just times out.

The JS is below:

var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(1337, "mysite.com");

console.log('Server running at http://mysite.com:1337/');

Node.js really interests me so would be good if i can understand why it isnt working.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

How about:

var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(1337);

console.log('Server running at http://mysite.com:1337/');

Without specifying the host?