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Milad Jafari
Milad Jafari

Reputation: 1155

Nodejs/Apache config for proxy pass

I want to use Nodejs/Apache proxy pass to serve my APIs, but after add below apache(httpd) config, it seems that config not working.

OS: 

CentOS 6

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

...
<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName example.com
   ServerAlias www.example.com
 
   DocumentRoot /home/MyUser/public_html
   <Directory />
      Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride None
      Require all granted
   </Directory>
 
   ProxyRequests Off
   ProxyPreserveHost On
   ProxyVia Full
   <Proxy *>
      Require all granted
   </Proxy>
 
   <Location /api>
      ProxyPass http://MyVpsIp:1337
      ProxyPassReverse http://MyVpsIp:1337
   </Location>
 
</VirtualHost>
...

after: 

sudo service httpd restart

Open example.com/api in the browser: 

Not Found
The requested URL /api was not found on this server.

EDIT: when I open example.com:1337/api in the browser, everything is ok! but I want example.com/api

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5583

Answers (3)

Tom Fl&#237;dr
Tom Fl&#237;dr

Reputation: 111

I'm using this configuration for long time with no problems.

The difference is only in the thing, that I'm using mod_rewrite to define requests for Node.JS, not <Location> definition.

It could proxy standard http/https request and also web sockets
to Node.JS application and back to client.

In example bellow - all requests starting with /api substring are redirected
by Apace proxy to Node.JS application running on the same computer on
http://127.0.0.1:8888 (or on ws://127.0.0.1:8888 for websockets).
If Apache Virtual Host is configured with https://example.com/api,
you need to use web socket address: wss://example.com/api. 

...
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_wstunnel_module modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so
...

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:443>
    # Virtual host basic configuration:
    ServerName example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example.com

    # Use mod_rewrite engine to select request for Node.JS:
    RewriteEngine on

    # Node.JS websockets requests proxy configuration:
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} =websocket [NC]
    RewriteRule /api/(.*) ws://127.0.0.1:8888/$1 [P,L]
    # Node.JS https requests proxy configuration:
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/api(.*)$
    RewriteRule /api(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8888$1 [P,L]

    ## ... any optional https certificates configuration after...
    #SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/...
    #SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/...
    #Include /etc/letsencrypt/...
    #SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/...
</VirtualHost>

Proxy tunnel will be created from https://example.com/api to
http://127.0.0.1:8888, but the unsecured communication is only inside
your webserver after proxy, so it's still OK.
In your firewall, it's only necessary to allow port :80 (or :443 for https)
in public zone. Not the port :8888 for Node.JS - that port has to be protected.

Upvotes: 2

skalkanci
skalkanci

Reputation: 61

If you want to proxy by using Location, following should work for you.

  <Location /test>
            ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:3001/  retry=0 timeout=60 keepalive=On
            ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:3001/
  </Location>

Firt question is how will use your URL? example.com/api or example.com/api/smthng

If you will use api between slashes like /api/ you need to specify it in Location tag like following

/test to /test/

  <Location /test/>
            ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:3001/  retry=0 timeout=60 keepalive=On
            ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:3001/
  </Location>

And another point is as you see, I also added a / in the end of my ProxyPass (ProxyPass http:.....:3001/ ). So, if you share us some example URLs we may give the correct config for you case.

For example, in my example: There is a VirtualHost listening 3001 port and there is a index.html (content is 'test') stored in the DocumentRoot. So if I browse :3001 , it will output test.

However, If I want to use Proxy (lets say this VirtualHost runs on port 88). So If I call some_ip:88/test , it will return test according to my first Location example. And I need to call some_ip:88/test/ for my second Location example.

Upvotes: 3

Albirew
Albirew

Reputation: 299

Try editing proxypass to add location and removing it's directory tag container.

  ProxyPass /api/ http://MyVpsIp:1337/
  ProxyPassReverse /api/ http://MyVpsIp:1337/
</VirtualHost>

Upvotes: 1

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