Hosting Nestjs App with Github actions and EC2

create AWS EC2 instance

• lauach and instance and Set security rules by going the below
• click security
• click security groups
• click Edit Inbound rules
• click add rules
• set type to custom TCP
• set port range to '80'
• 0.0.0.0.
• save rules
• check instance and click connect
• click ssh cient
• run ssh command with sudo # you should be connected to the EC2

On github

• go to settings
• click on actions and then runner
• follow the instruction to install and connect github actions on EC2
• sudo apt update
• sudo apt install nodejs npm nginx
• sudo npm install -g pm2
• sudo ./svc.sh install
• sudo ./svc.sh start
• cd _work # move to that directory
• sudo pm2 start dist/main.js --name=app-name
• sudo pm2 restart app-name
• cd etc/nginx/sites-available
• sudo nano default

proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; }

restart nginx with the code below

s- udo systemctl restart nginx

Voila it is up