You can build node.js on our servers. The trick is to use the 'jobs' flag on the configure step, eg:

./configure --jobs=1 --prefix=$HOME

Hope that helps!

I created this example and ran it as custom app listening on port.

var sys = require('sys'), 
   http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  setTimeout(function () {
    res.sendHeader(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.sendBody('Hello World');
    res.finish();
  }, 2000);
}).listen(40740);
sys.puts('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:40740/');

When i open it in browser, it outputs

b
Hello World
0

Do you know why it appends extra symbols to just "Hello World"?

At the same time when I run this on server, the output is correct:

curl http://127.0.0.1:40740
Hello World

Last edited by dw0rm (2009-12-03 00:42:01)

tie,

Thanks for your tip. I'm gonna post the question on  node.js google group.

That's great! Hopefully the patch will make it into the next release. In any case, we'll keep it in mind in case anyone else runs into the same problem.

I simply used "Custom app (listening on port)" app type, and ran node.js app under screen.

Since you already started this thread I'll post my question here..
I'm not getting tests to run at all with node.. Building seemed to go nicely along, also all of the built in self tests I've tried works, but im not getting a response in the browser when using the custom app(listening on port) feature.. Do I have to build node in the webapps/mywebappsname directory to make it work correctly or something?

Actually I made it work without building a new instance in the application directory.. Don't know how but it works now:)

Anyways, made a howto for other users that wish to set up nodeJS on their Webfaction account.
http://enotodden.net/nodejshowto-webfaction.txt

@markashleybell
I'm so sorry for the late answer, haven't been on the webfaction forums lately.. You've probably figured it out by now, but anyways... Here you go:


How to set up nodeJS on Webfaction.


Version: 0.1.94
Date: 12.05.10
By enotodden

1. Fire up a shell.

2. Get the .tar.gz file from nodejs.org
    wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.1.94.tar.gz

3. Extract the archive.
    tar -zxvf  node-v0.1.94.tar.gz

4. cd into directory.
    cd nodev0.1.94

5. Configure with the --jobs flag.
    ./configure --jobs=1 --prefix=$HOME

6. Build.
    make

7. Install
    make install

8. Thats it, lets test it!


9. Go to the control panel, make a new application,
set the type to custom(listening on port) and call it nodetest.
Write down the port number your app was assigned. (for this example I'll use 54321)

10. Make a new subdomain for your testing app.

11. Make a new website entry, set domain and application accordingly.

12. cd into your apps'  directory.
    cd ~/webapps/nodetest/

13. make a new file called nodetest.js
    nano nodetest.js

14. Paste in this code and save it(ctrl-o  enter  ctrl-x)
    var sys = require("sys"),
    http = require("http");

Your best option would be to use nohup, here is a full set of documentation for it: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/nohup-exe … rompt.html

To kill the process just do this:

ps -u username -o pcpu,rss,pid,command

Then run kill PID for your application.

Great! Glad I could help.