How to Deploy a Next.js app to a Custom Server - NOT Vercel! (Full Beginner Tutorial)

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00:00 Intro
01:13 Hostinger Sponsorship
02:09 Hostinger Dashboard Setup
03:06 Warp Terminal
03:30 Step 1 | Initialising ssh Command
04:25 Step 2 | Removing Apache2 & Installing Reverse Proxy
06:20 Explaining Remote Proxy
08:59 Step 3 | Setting Up NGINX Configuration
11:54 Step 4 (Crucial) | Creating a Symbolic Link
14:14 Step 5 | Setting Up the Next.js App
20:35 Step 6 | Implementing PM2
23:47 Bonus Step | Modifying the Site
28:04 Hostinger VPS Benefits
28:42 Outro
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[@biLLie_wiLLie]

Finally someone cares about it

[@LoadOfJak]

Most of my short career has been spent working on PHP and WordPress projects so I’ve had a lot of experience setting up server environments for those, but it’s really great seeing how this process can work for a Next.js project, which is pretty much synonymous with Vercel. Good to see I’m not completely stuck on vercel just because I wanted to use next.js. Great and instructive video.

[@JamesCharlestonII]

Sonny, Thank you so much brother. This was a huge part of the missing link that was so close to putting me off to node.js applications. I have own and run my own hosting servers, owned 3 hosting companies, trained and built over 300, but all before the time of Node.js. I could not get things working. I am not following all your processes found in this video, including programming remotely now, but with one modification. I am using Nginx Proxy Manager to manage my Nginx proxy and SSL certificates, with ability to control websockets and Access from one admin panel. It is very very fast. So now I have a complete solution and I am back to loving working with Node.js and Next.js

[@semerset]

This tutorial video is GOLD! Thanks a lot!

[@nodirbeksharipov458]

As a senior software engineer, I know all of these, yet still watched and enjoyed every second of it, kudos to you 🥳

[@ElevateLife896]

Thank you so much. I was dealing with the issue of hosting my website on VPS. Now I can easily do that.

[@arthur6892]

Wow. This video is sooo helpful. I covered all information i want to know. Thank you!

[@ewwitsantonio]

Excellent demonstration! This has cleared up so much for me. Thank!!

[@crysis992]

A video on how to setup auto deployment on a custom server would be awesome. So our app gets build on the server automatically with the latest changes to branch x on git.

[@pushkarkathayat7893]

+1

[@victoriousinsight]

+1

[@ishrathinaam6723]

+1

[@hanserlabber4164]

+1

[@krisztiankaposi8054]

Iv been waiting for this for sooo long

[@shamiul_islam]

Thanks man! It was very helpful!

[@videoponder4673]

Thank you so so much for this video! This is the explanation of the missing link in the chain. As a self-educator I was desperately searching for exactly this.

[@SonnySangha]

Im so glad it could help!

[@taiacolaitiniyara]

Thank you very much brother. This video really helped me alot.

[@webwisesagar]

Thanks Sunny ! The pdf you've given in the description really helps.

[@SonnySangha]

Im glad it could help!

[@sujjee]

Hey man! I really enjoyed your videos. I'm currently looking into implementing multi-tenancy (wildcard subdomains). I've read the Vercel documentation and cloned Steves Tey's platform starter kit, but I'm still having trouble understanding the concepts. Would you be able to create a video on this topic that is more beginner-friendly? I'm particularly interested in learning how to use the new Next.js app route feature.

[@farshidk49]

It was very helpful for me. Big Like!

[@christopheradolphe]

Thank you for such great content. That's exactly the alternative I was looking for. Oh and by the way, totally unrelated... but that fade hair cut is sick!!

[@ehsanparastegari2003]

Amazing, Thank you

[@lucaskrieck1877]

Awesome video, specially the last part where you actually runs in localhost, this will make my work A LOT faster! Huge thanks

[@DanielPenaloza-fj8yo]

It would be awesome if you Sonny can make a small guide of managing Nodejs apps (like Nextjs) in a VPS (like hostinger's). Cause sometimes it's really hard to find some relevant information like yours, thanks a lot.

[@jhmcodedev]

Thanks you Sonny ! Please make more videos like this ! How can i do if i want to publish more than one site using next ??

[@Finn51531]

Very much appreciated.

[@protonys]

Super content. Thanks !

[@tinotendajoe5852]

Been waiting for these.. Had been deploying my apps to a vps but wanted someone to share latest standards on how to do it esp auto deploys with web hooks or something

[@marvikfr]

2 words => Merci Sonny ! 😎

[@braddockbrawler]

Very useful. Subbed.

[@RicardoPerez-gt1vh]

GOOD JOB!

[@thomasawounfouet7395]

Thanks for the bonus with remote - ssh . It’s really awesome

[@babakmahmoodi8741]

Thanks a lot. Please teach us load balancing and ssl and dns

[@Ga2-20]

Is it possible to integrate this flow with github? E.g. to have production app on main branch and staging app on develop branch? And when branch is updated then app on the servee also updates?

[@martin_kuchar]

If I understand you right, you forwarded all requests for your web app to the node server, including requests for images, css etc.?

[@omarezeldin4620]

The Best #papareact 🔥🔥🔥

[@manuelb9122]

Thanks for this video. I want a video for ssl conf. Thanks in advance 🤜

[@aminataeidev]

thanks bro

[@sharurocky8379]

Hi broo..Enjoyed and totally loved it❤ Please bring SSL certification video

[@harisahmad9323]

As a Sr. frontend developer, I already have the above but still enjoyed watching on 2x speed 😅, also it will be great to make the ssh for it too

[@Sietches]

Very beginner friendly guide. Please do the SSL setup video!

[@bartmercier5436]

Cool from an old grand daddy : i love your Channel.😊

[@Saad_sahib]

Sonny! You're raising the top level of education available to us Your videos are enlightening to us and providing new knowledge thanks bro🙂 my English is not Soo good but I hope you under stand

[@Onepiece_legends]

❤ u got your self a new sub with a bench of likes , thank you bro

[@inzendis]

I have a question when I do VPS do I lose the functionality of features such as middleware and API routes? Its kinda of a dumb question seeing as you are using app router. Its just that I may need to do this exact thing to host a PWA Next.js 13 app that Im doing. Great video, you gave me a solution!

[@user-sj2pg7tz7i]

Hey Sonny, thanks for the tutorial, very neat and easy to follow! Do you mind sharing what screen recorder software you use? Trying making a few videos for workplace and almost none of them work for me when I'm trying to embed my webcam inside the video in real-time! Thanks

[@tauqeerhusain7521]

Big love sony sir ❤❤

[@googleusers]

bro thanks you

[@zyaaco9964]

As a complete beginner to hosting, how safe is this? Like would I be able to create a nextjs app that i know is safe if i was to host it on vercel and be able to host it on a vps or do i need to take extra security measures? and is the process the same on other hosting websites that let you create a vps?

[@saikrishnamuntha62]

bro I need with external api like python or node js to integrate with nextjs on Login apis

[@tair2347]

I don't write comments at videos at all, but this one is such a good video with grained explanation and showcase. Thank you very much!!! (And doc btw is very useful)

[@SonnySangha]

Thank you so much!!!

[@victorc.chikezie]

This is so beautiful. What if there is an error and I don't want users to see it yet until it's fixed, how do I do that since I'm working directly to the project folder from my remote vscode?

[@lp26197]

Hello my friend, I am following you and I want advice from you. I am a front-end developer and I use next js and I have worked on actual projects and I want to start in the back-end field. You advise me to start with C# or Javascript framework and work. I am very confused. Please help me. From your point of view, what is best?

[@kasmiraw]

Hey Sonny, you are the one who taught me ReactJs, which opened up the path for my career and startup. Wish you all the best.

[@programmersohel]

Great! how can you use Deferent node version my various app?

[@biLLie_wiLLie]

Thank you for this video! I would like you to explain more about deploy. This topic is quite tricky for a not backender. Perhaps making a clone of functionality of vercel (connecting git to server) on this channel can collect a million of likes

[@hamzaakhun]

This is awesome to deploy to custom server, lots of nextjs devs are searching for ... But a Major question here. Will app router middlewares and api route in nextjs work with this way????? Thanks

[@beshoysoliman2331]

can you deploy a nodejs server on it as well?

[@sahadpop4135]

Need your guide on ssh for this one ❤

[@codedusting]

Can we do it in simple website hosting plan?

[@mahianahmed3178]

Any resources on maintaining serverless api inside VPS?

[@user-sg7pp7bv4l]

I have purchased kvm2 hosting. and complete initial setups. how can i upload my nextjs project now. i want to deploy via github.

[@vinniv6806]

I hope you will create tutorial how to do the same with docker images and github repo

[@andrew007s]

Hello, my backend is PHP. Can I install PHP on Ngix? Can you make a video on how a Next.js app would work with PHP?

[@hacenhacen5814]

after deploying next.js e.commerce plateform in hostinger, does it have bills to pay like vercel, cause i've watched a lot of people complaining about the hight bills to pay in vercel and now i'm afraid that this happens too in hostinger, so can anyone lead me to what is the best buisness plan to choose and what are the do's and dont's that i must to have in mind ????

[@jackfrosch]

Fyi, NGINX is pronounced like "engine x".

[@vimalsonara2819]

Let's do it.

[@rezakhani8627]

Hello, I bought a virtual server with 3 cores and 2GB of RAM, and I uploaded a very simple Next project to it. Inside this project, I installed the libraries `react-icon`, `react-toastify`, `next-auth`, and `tailwind`. Then, when I tried to build the project on the server, it me an error about unsupported CPU and said it couldn't do it. I want to know, is Next.js really that heavy that it can't even build a medium or small-scale project on such a server? Can you guide me and tell me if using Docker would make a? Please explain.

[@user-ty3iu3zv3d]

or can one create an nginx server for a subdomain because the entire vps is built on apache server

[@tsykin]

Thank you so much for this guide, it was very helpful! Do you mind if I create my own guide on how to deploy Next.js app to Google Cloud VM on free tier using the knowledge that I got from this video? I think it will be beneficial for the dev community 🙂

[@user-jg8sd9te5b]

is this only possible by paying? I got a hostinger domain and hosting because youtubers told me to, while i was building nextjs apps, and then i pay for it and find out i can't host nextjs apps, and i have to pay for a vps now? super frustrated. is there a free option?

[@Zakher]

Would love to see a self-hosted github runner + monorepo project

[@JRichens]

Sonny - Amazing... Just need SSL and how to forward my domain I purchased From GoDaddy to my IP address, or instructions where to do so! Thank you so much

[@JRichens]

Did this with Certbot and forwarded my domain with A method - sorted

[@user-sg7pp7bv4l]

Can I use putty on windows 10 to connect with server.

[@jhmcodedev]

There is no way to generate a statci/dist/out folder with all the javascript/css/html and upload this folder in the vps instead of upload the whole app . i mean like we do using vite ??

[@user-hb6yb6bu8n]

Please, ur livestream setup 🙏

[@rafaelldamaso]

works with cyberpanel?

[@SlaristaMardapani]

Sir ck you create videk for use ssl on this video?

[@kakashizet7496]

please make tutorial for deploy next js 13 with app router in cPanel.

[@nathanielgonzalez9598]

Great video, but I have a couple questions I'm hoping someone can help me out with. 1.) How do you deploy a Nextjs project that I've created that is on my desktop or on GitHub? Sonny only shows how to upload a newly created project. 2.) I followed Sonny's example and it worked perfectly. However, where is the project stored? I cannot find it using the CloudPanel GUI. It is not located under the "Sites" tab, so I'm not sure where I could go to access it. Thank you to anyone that is able to help me. I really appreciate it.

[@CartierKray]

This is gold bruh gold👏🏾 goin make shmoneyyy with this

[@SonnySangha]

Glad you liked it!

[@user-sg7pp7bv4l]

warp is not available for windows, please, recommend any other terminal for this setup

[@ariyoujahan9662]

Wow. Why does such an amazing video have just this many likes?

[@SonnySangha]

We will grow don’t worry 🙏🏽 thank you so much for the support!!

[@chi-mf1cx]

hey sonny I want ci/cd pipline for this server

[@humble-podcast]

Awesome, how do you do this but have it auto deploy from github? same setup, just auto deploy?

[@SonnySangha]

In Vercel dashboard you can connect your GitHub in the integrations panel, once you do this pushing to master/main can trigger a deployment! Hope this helps!!

[@humble-podcast]

@@SonnySangha I mean the VPS, not Vercel

[@ONEOTPOfficial]

production build?

[@tdombui]

The sharpest eye brows in software engineering

[@SonnySangha]

Haha I love this!

[@imranhassan3636]

How do I add images in the public folder of the app? Can anyone help me on this please.

[@israilgulzar7936]

supper cool about nginx because i have the same kvm2 and every thing same ... now just need to attach it with domain name and with subdomain tooo so plz create video for that ... or if u have already then drop link here plz

[@user-ty3iu3zv3d]

Please, what about it apache configuration.

[@elyastigre9867]

Hey ! Super video ! What is the software used to draw ?

[@gavit633]

Hey sonny please make a mern stack cart project with reudx toolkit and node api . im beeginer now so help me 😪

[@knuseski]

Great tutorial, but I dont like remote coding.... You can work locally, commit and push changes on git, and then pull changes and rebuild the app

[@abhisheksrivastava1208]

yes ! please add video on adding the ssl certificate too..

[@preduw]

Do I get this right? You are entering your root password on a third party terminal emulation website? Are there any security concerns?

[@tomasburian6550]

This seems quite complicated, can't I just host the app on my own hosting where I put my regular web pages?

[@hubesh716]

Sonny sir plz make React native Full Stack Projects series plz sir we need React native Stuff

[@biztechadvisors4337]

Hello sunny thanks brother, can you please suggest how to deploy the nestjs typeorm nodejs dackend on aws please.

[@xxapoloxx]

It is stated that dev is not production ready

[@user-ty3iu3zv3d]

Please, can you do this tutorial for apache server users too. please. please. pleassssssssssssssssss.

[@chinmoykr]

Remove everything except “next” folder from node_module, to save storage

[@user-kr4du9xe8s]

Is there a way to do this using shared hosting?

[@Jey_Em]

My reply keep getting deleted for some reasons. It might be because of the domain name example. Let me repeat it. First, you need to register a domain name. Once you have the domain, you'll need to configure the DNS records to point to your shared hosting server's IP address. Instead of directly adding the IP address in your Nginx configuration, you'll configure Nginx to use your domain name. For example, if you've set up (domain name) to target your shared hosting server's IP address, you would configure Nginx to use (domain name) in its configuration instead of the IP address. You can repeat this process for multiple domains or even subdomains. This approach allows you to host multiple websites/apps on the same shared hosting server, even though they all share the same underlying IP address. Just ensure that each domain or subdomain is correctly pointed to your shared hosting server in the DNS settings.

[@kacperkepinski4990]

how to deploy next using filezilla?

[@Jey_Em]

Didn't know that Hostinger already sell VPS