How to setup noVNC using TightVNC on Amazon EC2?

Question

I have installed TightVNC on an Amazon EC2 Windows Server 2008.

I am able to use VNC using TightVNC viewer properly. Now I want to setup noVNC on it. How can I do that?

Answer 1

AFAIK according to readme of websockify project from this github page you should download websockify zip-archive, unzip it and run executable wrapper named "run" from the unzipped directory like this: ./run 5901 --wrap-mode=ignore -- vncserver -geometry 1024x768 :1 And after this on the client machine you should use noVNC client from noVNC project on the same github page.

Answer 2

The npm version of websockify works great on Windows. Follow these steps:

1. Install NodeJS (the default global installation path is: %AppData%\npm, %AppData%\npm-cache)

2. Install required components, run:

   npm install -g express npm install -g optimist npm install -g policyfile npm install -g ws npm install -g http-server npm install -g mime-types npm install -g pkg

3. Create a folder named "websockify" under "%AppData%\npm\node_modules" and copy the contents of folder "websockify\other\js" in it.

4. Run (documentation of arguments -> https://www.npmjs.com/package/pkg): pkg "%AppData%\npm\node_modules\websockify\websockify.js" --targets "latest-win-x86,latest-win-x64" --out-path "your output folder"

Credit to gdan101: https://github.com/novnc/websockify/issues/67#issuecomment-354792644