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I'm running a Koa app on port 5000, and i'd like Ngnix to serve the app in a sub-directory - e.g: http://example.com/myNodeApp
Here's what I've currently got in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
location ^~ /myNodeApp/ {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
proxy_pass http://localhost:5000/;
}
This kind of works... apart from the fact that any redirect e.g this.redirect('/') in my Koa app goes to the the nginx web root /
Also, it doesn't render anything from my Koa apps' public directory e.g. stylesheets, javascript and images.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
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I have recently come across the same problem and here's what I did to fix it.
In Server Config:
I had to add
rewrite ^/myNodeApp/(.*)$ /$1 break;
to the NGINX config, in the
location /myNodeApp/ {...}
block, under what you already have in your example.
In client side:
I added
<base href='/myNodeApp/'>
to the <head> of my html files (or pug layout file in my case). This prefixes any links with your subdirectory.
Note that you will need to remove any leading /'s from your existing links. Eg
<link rel="stylesheet" href="layout.css">
instead of
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/layout.css">
That one caught me out for a while.
Bonus:
If you're using Socket.IO, like I am, you'll need to make a few more changes to stop some errors appearing in your console. You need to pass it a path option and specify your subdirectory.
In your html files
var socket = io.connect("/", {path: "/myNodeApp/socket.io"})
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