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is there a way to serve already build next js websites using express

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MinskinOP
I want to serve a nextjs website on a subdomain of a express server

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You want to host it in a subdomain. You can see a guide on google about using custom servers. Note: Nextjs servers are optimized, and you might have to optimize custom servers.
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MinskinOP
Can you please give me a example
I couldn't get anything to work
I am too dumb
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I'm unable to understand what you exactly need. are you pointing your subdomain to same server?
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MinskinOP
I am just using some middleware to check if a hostname startswith something and forward to request to something else
I wanna forward the request to a next js server thingy
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https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/configuring/custom-server
Use this for custom server
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MinskinOP
This doesn't work on built next apps
This requires a page and apps directory which would be found in uh
Some folder deep in the building directory
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Have you tried it out?
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MinskinOP
Yes
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Can you share any screenshot about the error or anything
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MinskinOP
Aight wait
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MinskinOP
$ tsx src/main.ts
/home/aj/builder-server/node_modules/next/dist/lib/find-pages-dir.js:42
        throw new Error("> Couldn't find any `pages` or `app` directory. Please create one under the project root");
              ^

Error: > Couldn't find any `pages` or `app` directory. Please create one under the project root
    at findPagesDir (/home/aj/builder-server/node_modules/next/dist/lib/find-pages-dir.js:42:15)
    at initialize (/home/aj/builder-server/node_modules/next/dist/server/lib/router-server.js:71:69)
    at async NextCustomServer.prepare (/home/aj/builder-server/node_modules/next/dist/server/next.js:240:28)
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So i guess your only option is to copy the app folder into the product root. Or you can run the next server separately the proxy then request
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MinskinOP
how can i do the latter
also the app folder doesnt contain the static files
css and images and shit
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Proxy? It’s difficult to explain, but I can give you code in a few hours
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MinskinOP
i think i got it to run, but
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You run the next app, rewrite or do something similar to the requests
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MinskinOP
yarn next start serves on a different port each time
thats the main problem
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You can specify a port
And how about you use nginx
To forward request from a specific domain to next js and other to express server
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MinskinOP
cant i just not use ports and just forward requests to the server
the next server
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You can do that using nginx
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MinskinOP
i have never used nginx
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You can learn to use it then