Ionic as a web server

Question

I have an Ionic project and I want it to work as if it is a web server (say mamp + php).

Since ionic is able to display a project in browser localy (using ionic serve), I am pretty sure it is able to do that. I have a simple ovh server.

How could I do that ?

Answer 1

You gonna need send all your project files (www folder) and dependencies to an web server.

You can try.

Local

    $ cd [ionic project]
    $ ionic platform add browser
    $ cd [ionic project]/platforms/browser/

and move your www folder to your server [webapp] folder.

Server

In your server:

1.Install Node.js

2. Install connect and serve-static

   $ cd [webapp] $ npm install connect serve-static

3. Create server.js file

   var connect = require('connect');
   var serveStatic = require('serve-static');
   connect().use(serveStatic(__dirname)).listen(8080)
   

4. Run serve

   $ node server.js &

Browser

Now you can go to http://yourdomain:8080/index.html

I hope this can help you :)