Deploy MERN App with Hostinger VPS in 10 Steps || Ubuntu || Git Actions

1. Connecting to Your VPS Using SSH - Starting with establishing a secure connection to your VPS, ensuring a safe and exclusive access environment for your deployment.

2. Updating the VPS - Keeping your server up to date with the latest packages and security patches to ensure optimal performance and security.
sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade

3. INSTALL NODE.JS:
source ~/.bashrc

4. INSTALL MONGODB
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mongodb-org -y
sudo systemctl start mongod
sudo systemctl enable mongod

Install git:
sudo apt-get install git-all

5. INSTALL PM2

6. INSTALL NGINX
sudo apt install nginx -y

7. Configure NGINX as a reverse proxy for your application. Create and edit a new configuration file:

server {
    listen 80;

    location / {
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}

8. Enable the configuration by creating a symlink and then test and reload NGINX:
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

9. Secure Your Application with SSL (HTTPS)
Install Certbot and the NGINX plugin:

sudo snap install --classic certbot
sudo ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot

10. Open Necessary Ports in the Firewall
sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw allow http
sudo ufw allow https
sudo ufw enable

sudo ufw status

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[AteneaConocimientos]

omg bro, you were so helpful for me. thanks for making this video.

[enakgaming]

If you had any changes to the repo on your local repo and push it to github. How do you update inside the vps hosting?

[bilbyplaisir]

I can’t stop thanking you homie but I have one more question the project that I’m working on has an admin folder Running on a different port number so how can I do that as well please

[qalbichamp]

what is url for my api I did all steps according to you but not know which is the basic url for my api

[ajmalleonard]

bro Thanks alot I found this video super helpfully, I have bug after command : sudo systemctl reload nginx : Error : nginx.service is not active, cannot reload., do you have any idea of what goes wrong on my issue . thanks bro

[saharilarshad]

How to deploy branch for example staging branch. i believe this tutorial deploy for the main branch. Please make a video for it

[bilbyplaisir]

Thanks for the video it helped me a lot but I do have a few questions the first one is : do I have the purchase the premium shared hosting as well with the vps to host the mern app ? And the last one is: do I need a mongodb production plan to deploy to production? Thank you again

[akshaykumar-xube]

Bro u are a life saver. I have been trying to deploy my app in hostinger, watched so many videos and I get some ideas from there but this one you really did a good job here, this one is a great video on hosting. And I am expecting some help if I ended up in some errors.

btw I am using firebase as my db, is there anything I have to do or change when deploying rather than giving the env correctly during the deployment.

[alexdin]

thanks for sharing this useful video, can we host 2 websites on the same server?

btw: you remind me of bob marley