- Create a Droplet
- Follow this or this tutorial to set up nodejs
- Follow this tutorial to install mongodb
- git clone this repo
npm install
sudo npm install pm2 -g
pm2 start server/index.js
pm2 startup ubuntu
sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin pm2 startup ubuntu -u sammy
- Create a Droplet on your Digital Ocean dashboard. Eg:
- Droplet hostname: Example
- Size: 5/mo
- Droplet region:
- Select image: Ubuntu 14.04 x64
- Add your SSH key. Read more here
- Remember to add Private Networking, it will be used later if you follow this node.js guide later on
- If you wish to secure your droplet even further, read on:
a. ssh into your server as root
b. Create a new user:
It's actually not a good idea to ssh in as root on a regular basis, because of how much power root has. It makes it easy to make destructive change, even by accident!
# adduser demo
c. Give root privelleges to the new user account.
gpasswd -a demo sudo
So if you need to run a command with root privelleges, type sudo <command>
d. Add public key authentication
* Manually install the public key. Copy your public key
* Switch from `root` to your new user. `su - demo`
* Make a directory and restrict its permissions:
```
mkdir .ssh
chmod 700 .ssh
```
* `vim .ssh/authorized_keys`
* `chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys`
* `exit` to return to `root` user
* Configure the ssh daemon:
`vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config`
Edit `PermitRootLogin yes` to become `PermitRootLogin no`
* Reload your ssh `service ssh restart`
READ more in Reference 2 and 3
ssh root@<ip-address>still prompts me for my password, even when I have entered my ssh prior to this!
You can try editing your ~/.ssh/config file to have this additional entry:
Host digitalocean
HostName <Digital Ocean IP Address>
User <user>
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/<rsa_key_name>The next time you can just ssh digitalocean and you're in!