Sails Quickstart

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Quickstart

Prerequisite: ensure local npm bin paths are in your search path (see KB: Adding npm bin/ path to command search path)
Login to terminal
Create a folder for your Sails application, in this example, we will use /var/www/sails:
```
cd /var/www
mkdir sails
cd sails
```
Install Sails from npm:
```
npm install sails
```
Create a new application called app
```
sails new app
```
Switch to the new directory, app/, and create a Passenger-compatible filesystem layout:
```
cd app
mkdir public tmp log
```
Designate this as a Node application by adding the necessary htaccess directive to public/.htaccess:
```
echo 'PassengerNodejs /usr/bin/node' > public/.htaccess
```
Connect /var/www/sails/app/public to a subdomain or addon domain within the control panel
- The subdomain sails.sandbox.apnscp.com is connected to the filesystem path /var/www/sails/app/public via Web > Subdomains
Access Sails, done!

Default welcome screen for a newly minted Sails application