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Judson Terrell
Judson Terrell

Reputation: 4306

Point to node middleware without using port

I have a website, let's say mywebsite.com I am using node and express for the middleware and point to mysite.com:3011/api To make my middleware calls. Hosting the site statically in ubuntu 16 (Linux) and running the middleware separately using pm2 (node server)

I would like to simply be able to do something like mysite.com/API without specifying a port in the API call.

Today I tried to demo the site at a corporate office and the apis failed due to not allowing a port to be specified in the URL.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

flejz
flejz

Reputation: 41

You can use a reverse proxy (like nginx) to hide this port and forward the request to your Node.js api. Something like this:

server {
    listen 80;

    ...

    location / {
         root /path/to/static/files;
    }

    location /api {
        rewrite ^/api(.*) /$1 break;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3011;
    }

    ...

}

Upvotes: 0

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