Node4ORDS

Simple node app to act as web listener to sit on top of Oracle Rest Data Services (ORDS) web container (such as Tomcat). This is an alternative to using an Apache web server.

This project was created as part of the Oracle XE / APEX VM install project: https://github.com/OraOpenSource/oraclexe-apex

Please note this is still in beta and additional changes will be coming.

#Install

git clone https://github.com/OraOpenSource/node4ords.git
#TODO the unsafe-perm may not be required
cd ./node4ords
npm install --unsafe-perm

##Upgrade Node4ORDS comes with a self updating script. If you have made any customizations to any file in the project be sure to back it up as this script will delete the folder. To run:

#Assuming that your app folder is in /var/www/node4ords
. /var/www/node4ords/update.sh

If you are missing update.sh it means you are running an older version of Node4ORDS. Please do a manual upgrade as described in this post.

#Config All the configuration in config.js. This should be reviewed before installing to configure the web container URL, ports, etc.

#Run

node app.js

An example of how to start this app on boot can be found in the Oraclexe-Apex project. Specifically the init.d/node4ords file.

#Static files Once installed a directory called /var/www/public will be created. Static files can be placed in there and referenced from your server via //server_name/public/filename. You can configure the location for static content in config.js.

By default, the following folder structure will be created:

|-/public
	|-css
	|-img
	|-js