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hretic
hretic

Reputation: 1075

nodejs server doesn't respond when clients use vpn or proxy

i have a simple noedjs server running on port 3001 of my server

im using this nodejs server along side of my website which runs on port 80 via some webserver (not sure what someone else did the configuration )

you can access my nodejs server here

http://88.198.164.43:3001/

the problem is when clients use vpn or proxy , nodejs server on port 3001 stops responding and i get something like

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://88.198.164.43:3001/

Access Denied.

is there any solution fort this ?

question 2 solved thanx to @charlietfl comment

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2016

Answers (1)

0xkvn
0xkvn

Reputation: 386

If your VPN/Proxy has a firewall integrated, it might just not allow connection to a majority of unusual ports. (3001 isn't usual compared to 80 for example which couldn't be blocked without losing access to every websites in the world)

Your best option to verify this would be to use a reverse proxy, either on apache or nginx to try mapping your 3001 port to a 80 port but on a different url.

Example: 88.198.164.43/node ---proxying---> 88.198.164.43:3001.

See the config for apache: https://stackoverflow.com/a/52185402/3415561

Or the config for nginx: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10375750/3415561

Upvotes: 3

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