After much pain, I have finally managed to get the prerequisites for Strider installed; nodejs, git, mongodb and node-gyp. I have checked and they all appear to be functioning correctly.
Following these instructions, I found that pm2 was a nice way to stop and start services, so I am going with that. Again everything appears ok, and it makes lovely noises at me to indicate that stuff is chugging along.
HOWEVER,
I caot navigate in my local browser. The URL I am using is ec2-xxx-xx-xx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com, with variations of adding http:// and port 3000 on the end; as well, of course, as modifying the environment to reflect this.
I have created a custom security group for Strider to allow traffic on port 3000 in AWS, the Strider port. However, the browser and Charles still complain that the DNS caot be resolved. PINGing the domain name yields an Unknown host; I can't believe that these sorts of domains need time to propagate do they?
What to do?