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lito
lito

Reputation: 3125

NodeJS listening on HTTP and HTTPS for one single domain name

I use express and a server cloud on AWS (Amazon Web Server) and a DNS "mydomain.com".

Question: how can I avoid my users to have to writing in the Browser-URL: http://mydomain.com:4000 and https://mydomain.com:3000

This is my code:

sudo node app.js

var app = express();
var server = http.createServer(app).listen(4000, function() {
        console.log('Express HTTP server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});
var server = https.createServer(credentials, app).listen(3000, function() {
        console.log('Express HTTPS server listening on port 3000');
});

// redirect all http requests to https
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  if(!req.secure) {
    return res.redirect(['https://mydomain.com', req.url].join(''));
  }
  next();
});

I want my user to be able to write my domain name using http and https with no port numbers. I already have a SSL certificate and everything is working fine, but I haven't been able remove the port-numbers and use both: https and http.

Any idea? please :)

I use MEAN stack (Mongo, Express, Angular, )

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2138

Answers (1)

Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper

Reputation: 32586

The only way to do that is to use the default ports for the protocols. That is, Port 80 for HTTP and Port 443 for HTTPS.

If you don't use the default protocol ports then the only way for the browser (or whatever client the users are using) to determine which port to connect to is for the user to specify it in the URL.

Edit - To address your comment above about different server objects

In the code in your question you create an HTTP server and then use the variable server to hold a reference to the object. You then create an HTTPS server and assign it to the same variable. If you use the server variable later in your code then you'll be dealing with the HTTPS server object, but will have no way to reference the HTTP server object.

To fix this, just use two different variables to hold the object references.

var httpServer = http.createServer ....
var httpsServer = https.createServer ....

Upvotes: 3

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