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Setting Up Node.js

Node.js is a platform that generally runs as a separate web server. LiteSpeed Web Server can be configured to proxy traffic to Node.js so that users can run Node.js applications (like Ghost) on their sites.

The following wiki guides you through the steps to set up Node.js with LiteSpeed Web Server. The wiki assumes that you have a functional LSWS installation running off of Apache configurations (though the steps can be easily adapted to using LSWS native configuration files).

Install Node.js

  1. wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
  2. tar xvzf node-latest.tar.gz
  3. cd node-vX.X.X

./configure --prefix=~ make make install

Proxy Node.js Traffic

Now that Node.js is installed on your server, you will need to tell LSWS to send

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