nodejs, expressjs serving PHP files

Question

Ok I've been playing around with nodejs, expressjs and socket.io to create some applications. But now im coming to the stage where i want to take things a bit further.

I have noticed a few node apps using PHP for twitter auth on their client side. When I attempt to rename my client.html file to client.php and restart the server it throws up a blank page with this

Cannot GET /

How do would serve php files or would i do twitter auto using js?

This is my NodeJS server.js

var http = require('http'),  
    express = require('express');

var app = module.exports = express.createServer();

// Configuration
app.configure(function(){
    app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
});

app.listen(1234);
console.log("server started on port :1234");

Answer 1

As already noted, node.js itself won't interpret php files for you. Available options are:

• have nginx in front of node and reverse proxy all request you want to process in node from it
• proxy php requests from node to php-capable server
• spawn php process on each request in node
• make fastcgi link to php-fastcgi using node fastcgi protocol parser