title: Nodejs and wamp server confusion
body: <p><strong>The situation</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have been developing in php and using wamp for the past 2 years. Then I come across a module to implement a chat system followed by instant notifications. So I go look it up and found this awesome "nodejs" that allows you to connect to connected users in realtime.</p>
  
  <p>This guy <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17209717/how-to-integrate-nodejs-socket-io-and-php">nodejs socket.io and php</a> uploaded a way to integrate nodejs socket.io and php without node server. 
  So I downloaded his project (github) and ran it on my computer but it gave 
  connection refused error from 8080 So,</p>
  
  <p>I go to nodejs site and install nodejs on my system (windows). It automatically updated my environment variables and I could just go to my command line to run a example project as </p>
  
  <pre><code>path(...)node nodeServer.js
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then run the index file of the project from the shared link and it starts working. everything runs smooth and nice.</p>
  
  <p><strong>MY QUESTION</strong></p>
  
  <p>If without installing nodejs on my system I cannot run the node app in the small example project then how am I supposed to install nodejs on live server (apache) and use command line to start nodejs.</p>
  
  <p>I know this might be too silly but I am really new to nodejs so I don't know if I can run node on live php server. If it is possible then can anyone tell me how can I do that ? or is it just an ideal situation and can't be done.</p>