Easy Deployment Setup for Production

Folder Structure

├── PRODUCTION_hookeeChatApp/
│   ├── app.env  
│   ├── app-start.sh  
│   ├── init-cert.sh              
│   ├── docker-compose.mongo.yml
│   ├── docker-compose.app.yml
│   ├── docker-compose.certbot.yml
│   ├── backend/
│   │   ├── src/
│   │   ├── index.js
│   │   ├── package.json
│   │   ├── ecosystem.config.js
│   │   ├── Dockerfile
│   │   ├── replace-env.sh
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── frontend/
│   │   ├── hookee/
│   │   ├── Dockerfile
│   │   ├── nginx.template.conf
│   │   ├── nginx.https.template.conf
│   │   ├── replace-env.sh
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── database/
│   │   └── hookeeDB/
│   ├── certbot/
│   │   ├── conf/
│   │   └── www/
│   └── README.md

DNS Settings

Open your domain registrars account eg. 'GoDaddy', 'Hostinger' etc and Make sure your server's IP address should be properly configured with your domain in the DNS settings.

Deployment

Step 1

Open app.env file and update "Domain", "Gmail ID" and "Gmail App Password" with your real "Domain", "Gmail ID" and "App Password"

DOMAIN=www.yourdomainname.xyz
GMAIL_ID=yourgmailid@gmail.com
GMAIL_APP_PW=hgvf uhjb tfrt mnhb
If you have custom subdomain, then domain pattern should be DOMAIN=subdomain.yourdomainname.xyz
Step 2

Copy PRODUCTION_hookeeChatApp folder with its sub folders and files from your PC to your Ubuntu server at the path /home/ubuntu

Note: In the path (/home/ubuntu), ubuntu is just a placeholder. Replace it with your actual server username.

For example: If your server username is ec2-user, then the path will be /home/ec2-user

Here we are using "FileZilla" to copy files from the local machine to the server, but you can use any other method you prefer.

Step 3

  • Open "Remote shell" for Ubuntu server

  • Go to "PRODUCTION_hookeeChatApp" folder using command cd /home/ubuntu/PRODUCTION_hookeeChatApp

    Note: Here ubuntu is just a placeholder. Replace it with your actual server username.

    For example: If your server username is ec2-user, then the command will be cd /home/ec2-user/PRODUCTION_hookeeChatApp

  • Install "Docker" on your server using below command

    sudo apt update && sudo apt install ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release -y && sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings && curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg && echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null && sudo apt update && sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin -y && sudo docker --version && sudo docker compose version

  • "Start App" using below command

    chmod +x app-start.sh && sudo ./app-start.sh

  • After completing the above command, open the app in your browser using the "https" protocol https://www.yourdomainname.xyz or https://subdomain.yourdomainname.xyz

    Note: Here "subdomain" and "yourdomain.com" is just a placeholder. Replace it with your actual subdomain and domain name.

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