Prepare the Server

A few system packages are needed:

Curl: used to downloading the install
Nginx: used as a webserver proxy
Pm2: used as the requests runner
Node 18: the website is build in node
Dotnev: used to pass variables into the site
Lsof: (ubuntu, centos); needed to check open ports
Git: (ubuntu, centos); needed for installs
Grep: (apline); need to update default version
System build tools

Note

Many of the commands below require root access. If you are not a root user, run them with sudo.

∞ Install Deps

apt-get update
apt-get -y install curl nginx lsof build-essential git
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | bash -
apt-get install -y nodejs
npm i -g pm2 dotenv-cli
pm2 install pm2-logrotate

# allow pm2 to start on reboot (need sudo if you are not running as root)
pm2 startup

apk add --no-cache curl nginx nodejs npm grep
npm i -g pm2 dotenv-cli
pm2 install pm2-logrotate

# allow pm2 to start on reboot (need sudo if you are not running as root)
pm2 startup

∞ Update Report Lists

# mirror streams may need to be updated.
sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-*
sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-*

# add source for latest curl (default older curl is missing flags)
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/city-fan.repo << EOF
[CityFan]
name=City Fan Repo
baseurl=http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/yum-repo/rhel\$releasever/\$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF

yum clean all
yum install -y curl

curl -fsSL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | bash -
yum -y install nodejs nginx lsof git gcc gcc-c++ make
npm i -g pm2 dotenv-cli
pm2 install pm2-logrotate

# allow pm2 to start on reboot (need sudo if you are not running as root)
pm2 startup

You can check the node version by running node --version.