Website deployment

Website Extraction

• First you have to extract the snapta.zip then you will get zip files.

  • snapta_web.zip

• Create snapta_web folder with below command

   mkdir -p /var/www/snapta_web

• Upload snapta_web.zip to a location where you want to deploy Project using FileZilla

  • /var/www/snapta_web (This is the recommended location)

• Extract snapta_web.zip to /var/www/snapta_web

• Here you will get all the files of website.

Configure Environment Variables

• Edit the .env file in the root directory of your project. This step is mandatory to ensure the application can connect to your server.

• Update the following lines in the .env file with your actual server and database credentials:

  NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=http://server_ip/api
  NEXT_PUBLIC_SOCKET_URL=http://server_ip:3002/

Server Starting

• After editing the .env file, you have to create build of website.
• Every time you change the code you have to create build of website and restart the server.

  npm run build

• After that you have start the server on port 3005.

  PORT=3005 pm2 start npm --name "snapta_web" -- run start

• If you want to stop the server then use below command.

  pm2 stop snapta_web

• If you want to restart the server then use below command.

  pm2 restart snapta_web

• you have to open your browser and go to http://server_ip:3005 to see the website.