Gatsby: Hosting GatsbyJS site on shared hosting

[ygspasov]

I just created a new website with GatsbyJS and followed the tutorial to deploy it on surge.sh. Everything went smoothly but when I contacted my hosting provider, they informed me that I have to purchase a VPS with full root access in order to host a one-page website made with Gatsby. Is there a way to upload the site to my shared hosting account as an HTML file with its resources? Any tutorial, if it exists, will be appreciated.

[tulphoon]

At the root of your GatsbyJS project, run the gatsby build command, it should build a directory called public. Inside that directory is your whole static website. So, if you are able to put it on a server, it should be working.

[ygspasov]

Thank you for the info, tulphoon. Unfortunately, my hosting provider has just informed me that their shared hosting servers cannot run sites that rely on NodeJS.

[LekoArts]

You‘ll need to upload the content of the public directory e.g. via FTP. Nodejs is not needed.

[ygspasov]

Thank you LeKoArts. I'll have to test this!

[ygspasov]

You were right. I just uploaded the site via FTP and there were no issues. Thank you!

[fk]

@ygspasov Closing this as your question seems to be answered. Please feel free to reopen if you're still running into problems!

[Raja0sama]

the problem is with that you cannot have state on shared hosting,i tried a simple counter application and try it to host with xampp and it doesn't work.

[DanielRuf]

Hi @dksami ,

please open a new issue regarding your problem. The state is always handled in the memory of the browser so state should still work.

[Raja0sama]

Well the thing was the prefix of asset, it was not pointing in the correct direction. i always thought that a Apache server cant handle the state. i was wrong.

[DanielRuf]

State is always handled / managed by the client (JavaScript). React runs completely on the client side / in the browser, no server needed for that.

[Raja0sama]

How is gatsby serve is any different, it doesn't needed prefix.

[DanielRuf]

How is gatsby serve is any different

This is a local in-memory development server which directly mounts the dist / public folder on the root folder.

[DanielRuf]

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