fideloper
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6 years ago Hi!
Right, that assumes NodeJS is installed (for the next book update I’ll have to review and make that more clear, and see if NodeJS changed a lot or not, I hope that script still works!).
In any case, if you’re running the node script on your local machine, but doing the curl request from within the VM, that won’t work - localhost in that case refers to the servers localhost which isn’t forwarded or connected to your host machines localhost. If you want to curl from within the server and have it speak to a node server running on your local machine (the host computer) you’ll need to have variant network aware of the host machine (it be already out of the box) and then you can curl the host machines up address - likely that’s something like curl 192.168.16.16:9000”, where the 192.168 address is what we the IP address of the host machine is (it might be a totally different IP address, depending on your computer)
The key point there is understanding that the virtual machine and your host computer have two separate networks that aren’t necessarily connected. (Altho likely are, but using “localhost” as the host name wont be the way to get them to speak to each other - instead it’ll be over an IP address of a network they’re both connected to, which I think is a default setup of vagrant - Altho you may need to assign the vagrant machine a static IP address, which the book covers).
If you want to try out a php web listener instead, you can use that instead with a CLI command you can run from within your vagrant server:
php -S 0.0.0.0:9000 -t /path/to/directory/with/web/files
That will start a PHP dev server that can serve php or static asset files from whatever directory you set it to read from (on port 9000).
I’m not sure if there’s a point there I can expand on. It sounds like mostly a confusion on how the networking is between the VM and the host machine but let me know if I can clarify something more specific.
- chris On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 08:50 Tanase Lucian notifications@github.com wrote:
Hello,
I cannot make to work the small node (http.js file) application at page 100-102 of the book. When i curl localhost:9000 within the server I receive an error message: curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9000: Connection refused.
The http.js file is located and is ran on the local machine where I have installed nodejs.
Is this the correct setup or the http.js file should be on the server too, in order for the example to work (which implies that I need to install node as well)? The book is not very explicit about.
Currently I have installed on the server just Apache2, PHP7 and MariaDB. I am also using Vagrant for creating the ubuntu server.
Thanks!
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Hello,
I cannot make to work the small node (http.js file) application at page 100-102 of the book. When i curl localhost:9000 within the server I receive an error message: curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9000: Connection refused.
The http.js file is located and is ran on the local machine where I have installed nodejs.
Is this the correct setup or the http.js file should be on the server too, in order for the example to work (which implies that I need to install node as well)? The book is not very explicit about.
Currently I have installed on the server just Apache2, PHP7 and MariaDB. I am also using Vagrant for creating the ubuntu server.
Thanks!