EC2 web app template
This is a template I use to quickly set up Node.js-backed web apps on Amazon EC2
- Less than 15 minutes from start to finish
- Eligible/compatible with the "AWS Free Usage Tier"
- Ubuntu Linux
- High-performance Nginx HTTP server
- Sensible default configuration (three flavors to chose from)
- Automatically handles all static file requests
- Delegates non-static requests to the Node.js web server
- Git-based deployment
- Init.d scripts
This template enables a very smooth, simple and scalable workflow
- When developing locally, the single command
bin/myapp-httpd.mv
runs your web server and takes care of serving static files - When deploying changes (after a git push),
myapp-update restart
deploys changes and restarts services on your server - Rolling back the server to an earlier version is a simple as
myapp-update restart v0.1.2
Let's get started! Head over to INSTALL.md