I have to put nodejs in port 80, but apache is already using it. How can I put both (nodejs and apache) on the same port 80? I need it because in my university all the ports are blocked except for PORT 80. (This is a realtime application with nodejs and socket.io (websockets) and in the other side a php application). Thanks a lot
If you want to run NodeJS on different port, change 80 to your required port number (e.g 8080). Also the function defined in createServer() will be executed whenever someone sends a request to your NodeJS server.
Set up a Node. js app for a website with Apache on Ubuntu 16.04. Node. js is a JavaScript runtime environment which lets you easily build server-side applications.
I do this via node.js proxy..
Install http-proxy
with npm
or official page
Example:
var http = require('http'), httpProxy = require('http-proxy'), proxyServer = httpProxy.createServer ({ hostnameOnly: true, router: { 'domain.com': '127.0.0.1:81', 'domain.co.uk': '127.0.0.1:82', '127.0.0.1': '127.0.0.1:83' } }); proxyServer.listen(80);
This creates a node process listening to port 80, and forwarding requests for domains which go to :81,82,83 etc. I recommend running this with forever
and adding an entry to init.d
so your proxy is up in case system shuts down.
You can also use Apache 2's mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http, which might be more reliable or perform better depending on your system.
Here's an example:
Firstly run below command to proxy to allow
sudo a2enmod proxy sudo a2enmod proxy_http sudo a2enmod proxy_balancer sudo a2enmod proxy_balancer sudo a2enmod lbmethod_byrequests # Use Apache for requests to http://example.com/ # but use Node.js for requests to http://example.com/node/ <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/example/ <Location /node> ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8124/ ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8124/ </Location> </VirtualHost>
And of course you can modify the directives to your needs, such as using a different port for your virtual host (e.g., 443), different port for Node.js, or set up the proxy under a different block, such as for a subdomain (e.g., node.example.com).
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