Running a nodejs website on cpanel

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Hello,

I have installed NodeJS onto my cPanel account, then I uploaded my NodeJS website/app onto my public_html/website then I added the following code to my htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^$ http://localhost:51521/ [P,L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^$ http://localhost:51521/$1 [P,L]

After adding that code to .htaccess, I ran the NodeJS application, and the website ran, and the homepage looked fine and all there, but when I go to any other pages, like for an example go to the About me page, It shows Not Found The requested URL /about was not found on this server.
[404 not found picture][1]

Then I proceeded to make a slight change in the .htaccess:"**^$**" to "**^(.*)$**" in the last line

RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^$ http://localhost:51521/ [P,L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://localhost:51521/$1 [P,L]

This caused the website to through an error showing: "404: index.php" and the homepage loaded but was missing a lot of stuff, BUT! the other pages showed but not fully there.. here is an image of the homepage: [homepage after tweak][2] and here's a picture of the second page that was showing 404 before the tweaking: [second page][3]

I have been researching non stop and I still can't find the solution, but here is my nodejs execution code:

var createError = require('http-errors');
    var express = require('express');
    var path = require('path');
    var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
    var logger = require('morgan');
    var mongoose =require('mongoose');
    var methodOverride = require('method-override');
    var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
    
    // mongoose.connect('mongodb://jehad:jhadayman1@ds121268.mlab.com:21268/hoca');
    mongoose.connect('mongodb://jhad96:jhad96@ds121268.mlab.com:21268/hoca');
    mongoose.Promise = global.Promise;
    
    var indexRouter = require('./routes/index');
    var usersRouter = require('./routes/users');
    
    var app = express();
    
    // view engine setup
    app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
    app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
    
    app.use(logger('dev'));
    app.use(express.json());
    app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
    app.use(cookieParser());
    app.use(methodOverride("_method"));
    app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
    app.use('/uploads',express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'uploads')));
    
    app.use('/', indexRouter);
    app.use('/users', usersRouter);
    
    // catch 404 and forward to error handler
    app.use(function(req, res, next) {
      next(createError(404));
    });
    
    // error handler
    app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
      // set locals, only providing error in development
      res.locals.message = err.message;
      res.locals.error = req.app.get('env') === 'development' ? err : {};
    
      // render the error page
      res.status(err.status || 500);
      res.render('error');
    });
    
    app.listen(process.env.PORT || 51521, ()=>{
      console.log('server is on ');
    });

Here is a picture of the nodejs website files: [files][4]


[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/hwsyS.png
[2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/sqds1.png
[3]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/dsZOi.png
[4]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/gjOAr.png

I really appreciate your help guys :)
much love

What I have tried:

seems that I have tried everything.. :/