Deploy your application

In this chapter we will deploy example-hello as a website, check it, and open our page in the browser. By the end, Nextweb will be serving the page we wrote.

We're in the shell we opened from the nextweb-tour folder.

Deploy it

These are the three steps we used for WordPress, with our own package in its place:

At the nextweb prompt

nextweb:/> deploy hello to hello.example.com using example-hello

You should see

Site "hello" registered for hello.example.com (template: example-hello).

  Site root: /home/you/nextweb-tour/nextweb_server/sites/hello
  Runs: /home/you/nextweb-tour/nextweb_server/pkg/app/example-hello
  Status: pending, commit and apply to start it

Next steps:
  commit "Deploy hello"
  apply
  verify hello

At the nextweb prompt

nextweb:/> commit "Deploy hello"

You should see

Committed: Deploy hello
Configuration validated.
Configuration written.

At the nextweb prompt

nextweb:/> apply -y

You should see

Applying configuration...

Applying site configuration...

Site: hello (hello.example.com)
  Allocated site listen port 4004 for hello
  example-hello 0.1.0 runs from /home/you/nextweb-tour/nextweb_server/pkg/app/example-hello
Service hello: running example-hello 0.1.0 (manage with "service hello status" / "service hello restart")
Visit: http://127.0.1.10:4004/

Site apply complete.

Configuration changes complete!
Changes 1, Warnings 0, Errors 0

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  hello is live → http://127.0.1.10:4004/                 │
│  verify: passed · applied in 1.6 s                       │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Next steps:
  verify hello
  service logs hello

Nextweb picked a port, started app.js with Node.js, checked that it answers, and handed us its address. The address and port on your screen may be different. How a deploy works explains what each step did.

Check it

At the nextweb prompt

nextweb:/> verify hello

You should see

Verifying site: hello
state.json (domain: hello.example.com, status: applied)
package: example-hello 0.1.0
HTTP check passed (200)

Visit: http://127.0.1.10:4004/

All checks passed.

The HTTP check is the site.verify entry from our .nextwebrc. Your application on Nextweb says where the application's output goes and where it can keep files of its own.

Open it

Open the Visit address in a browser on this computer. The page says:

You should see

Hello from Example Company

What we have now

A website running our own package, built and published by us. Next, we'll share the package with a team and a second server.

Next chapter Share your package Publish under an organization, and link a second server so it can install the package.