Sails Quickstart

Quickstart

1. Prerequisite: ensure local npm bin paths are in your search path (see KB: Adding npm bin/ path to command search path)
2. Login to terminal
3. Create a folder for your Sails application, in this example, we will use /var/www/sails:

   cd /var/www
   mkdir sails
   cd sails

4. Install Sails from npm:

   npm install sails

5. Create a new application called app

   sails new app

6. Switch to the new directory, app/, and create a Passenger-compatible filesystem layout:

   cd app
   mkdir public tmp log

7. Designate this as a Node application by adding the necessary htaccess directive to public/.htaccess:

   echo 'PassengerNodejs /usr/bin/node' > public/.htaccess

8. Connect /var/www/sails/app/public to a subdomain or addon domain within the control panel
   
   • The subdomain sails.sandbox.apnscp.com is connected to the filesystem path /var/www/sails/app/public via Web > Subdomains
9. Access Sails, done!
   

   Default welcome screen for a newly minted Sails application

See also

• Sails demo running on Sol, a v6 platform
• Sails documentation (sails.org)