Now we are going to take Strapi backend that we have been building in [Making Websites With Next.js And Strapi](https://watch-learn.com/series/making-websites-nextjs-and-strapi) series, and we are going to publish it on a shared hosting. As you will see, depending on your hosting this may not be the most viable solution. But if nothing else it will be fun to try, and learn something new.

Also I'm going to show you how to redirect port 8080 of your server so that the visitors to your website don't have to input a port to access your website.

In this episode we are going to deploy Strapi backend from Next.js and Strapi series to the shared hosting.

Deploy Node.js Apps To Shared Hosting

I have gotten quite a few questions about deploying your October CMS site to a live server. It is pretty simple but as you will see in this video there are a few gotchas. And I also wanted to share my workflow which involves .env variables and Git FTP. Because I think, doing it with just simple FTP app is kind of icky. As developers we should be using version control tools when ever possible, even if we don't have full Git infrastructure in our workflow.

In this episode we are going to skim over some topics that had already been discused on this channel so if you are feeling lost you can check out episodes about [Laravel Valet](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/update-october-cms-laravel-55-valet), [Git](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/basic-frontend-tools-git) and [Git FTP](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/basic-frontend-tools-ssh-scp-sftp-and-git-ftp)

In this episode I'm going to show you how to deploy October CMS to a shared hosting using Git FTP