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Joe Zim
Joe Zim

Reputation: 1987

.htaccess routing to Node App

I'm using a shared hosting service that always has Apache web server running, so I can't run my Node.js application directly on port 80. Instead, as I've been told by my host, I need to use .htaccess to redirect incoming requests to my Node.js app, which is currently running on port 50000. Here's the .htaccess file they told me to use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ http://127.0.0.1:50000 [P,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:50000/$1 [P,L]

This works well enough, except that when I try to go to mydomain.com, the Node app is seeing a request for /index.php. The tech support for my host seems to be as confused as I am. If I go to mydomain.com/test then Node.js app sees /test, so Apache seems to only be adding index.php on the root URL. Could this be an Apache caching issue from someone accessing the URL prior to the .htaccess file and Node.js app being set up?

UPDATE

At this point, no one seems to have a clue what is going on, so I'm just going to add an 'index.php' route to my Node app. Thanks to everyone who took a look and tried to help out.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4033

Answers (2)

nlstm
nlstm

Reputation: 75

This is actually what you are going to want to put in your /public_html directory

In the .htaccess file in the code below you will see

http://127.0.0.1:50000

(50000) is the port you are sending it too. There are 2 spots where you make that update.

Also update the example.com

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [R,L]

DirectoryIndex disabled

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ http://127.0.0.1:50000 / [P,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:50000 /$1 [P,L]

This is a specific configuration for an apache server with nodejs.

Upvotes: 1

Abhishek Gurjar
Abhishek Gurjar

Reputation: 7476

You might have DirectoryIndex set up for index.php in apache conf file which may be the reason you are getting index.php automatically, what you can do is to set DirectoryIndex to some filename which may not exist or if it is apache 2.4 use DirectoryIndex disabled in your .htaccess.

Upvotes: 3

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