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Version: 4.10.0

Installation on Windows

NodeSource provides a Windows MSI installer to deploy NSolid in production enviornments.

We support the following Windows based distributions:

  • Windows 10
  • Microsoft Windows Server 1909 Core
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Note: The default Node.js runtime used in the instructions below is Node.js v16 LTS (Gallium). If you wish to use a version of N|Solid based on Node.js v14 LTS (Fermium) or Node.js v12 LTS (Erbium), replace any instances of gallium with fermium or erbium.

Installing N|Solid on Windows Servers 2008 & 2016

  1. Go to accounts.nodesource.com
  2. Click on the Windows tab and download the package
  3. Double click on the downloaded MSI file and follow the instructions to install the necessary N|Solid and Node.js components.

Foor production enviornments, you may wish to deploy the NSolid Runime and Console separately. If that is the case ensure you select/ deselect the relevant application components to be installed via in the Custom Setup dialogue.

Windows Installer

  1. Once N|Solid's major components are intalled a PowerShell will pop up automatically to install Chocolatey, and other Node.js dependencies.

Windows Power Shell Post Install Scripts

  1. To stop and start the N|Solid Console via the Windows Start Menu.

  2. You can optionally 'Remove' or 'Install' the N|Solid Console Service via the corresponding shortcuts in the Windows Start menu:

Windows Install and Remove Console Service

5.2 Installing N|Solid on Windows Core 1909:

To install and the N|Solid Runtime and N|Solid Console:

  1. Open PowerShell powershell

  2. Install Chocolatey

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
  1. Install Chrome
Invoque-Request download_URL -OutFile nsolid-v4.6.2-gallium-x64.msi
  1. Download the N|Solid package
powershell
  1. Start N|Solid package installation and follow the installation steps
Start-Process .\nsolid-v4.6.2-gallium-x64.msi
  1. Update current $PATH
$env:PATH = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine") + ";" + [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","User")
  1. Verify that everything was installed correctly
nsolid -v
nsolid -vv
  1. Open browser with requested URL, same as running nsolid-console
Start-Process "chrome.exe" "http://localhost:6753"
  1. Run console from the installed command
nsolid-console