Ecommerce Restful API

Please visit (/api/docs) for documentation.

Steps to deploy the project on AWS EC2 instance and configure NGINX and SSL

1. Create Free AWS Account

Create free AWS Account at https://aws.amazon.com/

2. Create and Lauch an EC2 instance and SSH into machine

Create an EC2 instance with Ubuntu 20.04

3. Install Node and NPM

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.5/install.sh | bash
. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install --lts
node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)
npm -v

4. Clone your project from Github

git clone https://github.com/sudhanshubsr-dev/ecommerce-restful-api.git

5. Install dependencies and test app

sudo npm i pm2 -g
pm2 start index

# Other pm2 commands
pm2 show app
pm2 status
pm2 restart app
pm2 stop app
pm2 logs (Show log stream)
pm2 flush (Clear logs)

# To make sure app starts when reboot
pm2 startup ubuntu

6. Setup Firewall

sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw status
sudo ufw allow ssh (Port 22)
sudo ufw allow http (Port 80)
sudo ufw allow https (Port 443)

7. Configure DNS with Domain

Add a A record with your domain provider and point to your AWS EC2 instance IP address You can also add a CNAME record for www subdomain

8. Install NGINX and Certbot and configure NGINX

sudo apt install nginx

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Add the following to the location part of the server block

server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;

location / {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:8001; #whatever port your app runs on
    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;
}

# Check NGINX config
sudo nginx -t

# Restart NGINX
sudo nginx -s reload

9. Add SSL with LetsEncrypt

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-certbot-nginx
sudo certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.com -d www.yourdomain.com

# Only valid for 90 days, test the renewal process with
certbot renew --dry-run

10. Install Certbot and confgure ssl

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