Re: Ending a node web server from QSH session

Thanks Kevin. That makes more sense.

Aaron, I will check out your article and consider it as an option. I have two other articles about node in MC Press Online, and I'm using them as a cross-reference with the developerWorks page.

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Turner
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 2:59 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Ending a node web server from QSH session

They simply mean that you should do a system request followed by option 2 - the same thing you might do to kill an interactive program that is looping or some such. It just stops the process - if you using DOS it would be ctrl-c

On 20 Aug 2015, at 20:55, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My managers have given me the green light to explore node on the IBM i (7.1).

I'm following the IBM developerWorks getting started page at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-native-js-app-ibmi-with-nodejs/. The section of the page called "Create a web application using Node.js" has instructions for developing a hello world web server. I was able to get the hello world web server to run successfully:
* I created the sample.js file
* I put the sample.js file in the IFS
* I started a qshell session
* I executed the command "node /mydirectory/sample.js".
* I confirmed the web server was running by pointing my browser to the URL and seeing the hello world message.

Here's where I got a little confused. The developerWorks page says:

"To end the web server job, you can press the Esc key within the QSH session and select option 2 to work with the current jobs. Next, end the job running the node program with option 4 as shown in Figure 6."

While still in the qshell session, I pressed the escape key on my keyboard, but I did not get any options at all. I did not see a way to follow these instructions for ending the job. I used F3 to exit the qshell session. I pointed my browser to the URL, and it returned the standard browser message saying the page was not available.

If a node web server is started in a qshell session, is it okay to end the web server by simply stopping the qshell session?

Why did I not see any options when I pressed the escape key while in the qshell session?

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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