Playing with Laravel but no NPM and Node.js

Just compile your assets on your dev machine and not the production box? The only thing the production box needs are the compiled js/css files and whatnot. I don't even have a /node_modules dir on my production boxes.

Yes you have a good point there...:-) The reason I was working on my remote server directly was because I had email issues with Mailgun and ip addresses, I was trying to change the work on my "non-live" remote server as my project is not yet launched.

But yes you are right, I will have to do it this way.....Thanks!

It appears you have a a managed server with a limited Cpanel account and no root access. I'm not sure why your host would say it;s not possible to install Node, as it's just a server at the end of day.

The first result in Google states otherwise too :)

https://www.simpleservers.co.uk/clients/whmcs/knowledgebase/605/Install-nodejs-on-Cpanel-Server.html

If you're just testing, I'd recommend setting up a local environment yourself using Homestead or Laradock. That gives you a server, for free, that you can experiment with.

If it's a real site I'd personally go for DigitalOcean or AWS.

For the record, you CAN use Node on your server - your host is being a pleb and unhelpful :) If you have a good managed host they will install things for you.

Thanks for the reply,

Yes this is what I thought too, that they were not very helpful. They have also told me that they do not have single customer using cpanel and node/npm which I find strange.

I tried to install them on CENTOS 7.5 kvm - Linux 3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64 but kept having errors. Also being a windows user, I was struggling with the SSH commands, ie:

This is what I did at the moment and got stuck: ################################# I ran this command #node -v and got the result V6.14.2

From what I can see on the node website the latest version is V8.11.3

I found a tutorial that says to run this command: #wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.11.3/node...nux-x64.tar.xz

Here is the reponse: ###################################### HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 11351132 (11M) [application/x-xz] Saving to: ‘node-v8.11.3-linux-x64.tar.xz.1’

100%[======================================>] 11,351,132 1.31MB/s in 7.4s

2018-06-27 19:48:40 (1.46 MB/s) - ‘node-v8.11.3-linux-x64.tar.xz.1’ saved [11351132/11351132]

######################################

So from what I understand, Node has been downloaded but not installed.

The tutorial then says to do this: #tar -C /usr/local --strip-components 1 -xJf node-v8.11.3-linux.x64.tar.xz

But on this command I get this error:

[root@web ~]# tar -C /usr/local --strip-components 1 -xJf node-v8.11.3-linux.x64.tar.xz tar (child): node-v8.11.3-linux.x64.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [root@web ~]# ####################################

Are you running that command in the same dir as the node file you downloaded?

I am running it in the same folder where I ran the wget command.

The only thing that really stands out is

Saving to: node-v8.11.3-linux-x64.tar.xz.1

tar -C /usr/local --strip-components 1 -xJf node-v8.11.3-linux.x64.tar.xz

The filenames aren't the same. One has a .1 at the end.

I am wondering if the "--strip-components 1" from the second command has something to do with that. I copied both commands from a centos installation website "as is"