dnoon.com

Repository for personal site hosted on Digital Ocean, using a node.js server and Grunt for development.

Setup from Github

Install node.js.

Install Grunt command line tools:

$ npm install -g grunt-cli

To start server and generate files:

$ npm install -g grunt-cli
$ npm install
$ grunt

To view site open localhost:3000.

That should be it to get to development.

Deploy to Server

Clone this repo to root if not an empty directory:

$ git clone git://github.com/noonandr/dnoon

If repo exists do a pull:

$ cd dnoon
$ git pull git://github.com/noonandr/dnoon

Install node on Ubuntu:

$ git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
$ cd node
$ git tag
$ git checkout v0.10.25
$ sudo make install
$ node -v
$ ./configure
$ make
$ node -v
$ nvm use 0.10.25

Setup connect for server:

$ sudo npm install connect
$ npm install forever -g

Create hello.js file in root directory:

$ vim hello.js

Add below code to hello.js (to save and exit press 'ctrl' + 'c' and then type ':x' and press enter):

var connect = require('connect');
connect.createServer(
    connect.static(__dirname + '/dnoon/build')
).listen(80);

Check server is running at root:

$ node hello.js

Start forever to set site to live:

$ forever start hello.js

Check forever is running:

$ forever list