Install a real-time presentation slide platform on your POWER web hosting plan

Objective

You've subscribed to a Web POWER web hosting plan to deploy Node.js applications, and you want to deploy a real-time presentation slide platform on it.

This guide will explain how to do it.

Find out how to install Slideshow on your POWER web hosting plan.

Requirements

• A Node.js POWER web hosting plan
• access to the OVHcloud Control Panel

If you have just started to use your Web POWER web hosting plan, we suggest to have a look at our Getting started with a POWER web hosting plan guide before going further.

Instructions

Let's suppose you have the default configuration for Node.js hosting:

• Runtime: nodejs 14
• Entrypoint: index.js
• DocumentRoot: www

Connect via SSH to your POWER web hosting. Let's begin by retrieving the sources of the project:

rm -rf www
git clone https://github.com/nafeu/realtime-slides-tut.git www

Now let's go into the www folder, do an npm install and symlink the entrypoint to the application main file:

cd www
npm install --save
ln -fs server.js index.js

Then restart your instance and your slideshow platform will be online.

Terminal output:

 ~ $ rm -rf www

~ $ git clone https://github.com/nafeu/realtime-slides-tut.git www
Cloning into 'www'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 91, done.
remote: Total 91 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 91
Extracting objects: 100% (91/91), done.

~ $ cd www

~/www $ npm install --save
npm WARN realtime-slides-tut@1.0.0 No repository field.
added 297 packages from 253 contributors and audited 297 packages in 6.689s
found 18 vulnerabilities (9 low, 3 moderate, 5 high, 1 critical)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

~/www $ ln -fs server.js index.js

~/www $ mkdir -p tmp

~/www $ touch tmp/restart.txt

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