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Host multiple node.js applications on Digital Ocean using NginX

Posted on August 31, 2014

I followed this guide to setup a reverse proxy for my node apps - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-host-multiple-node-js-applications-on-a-single-vps-with-nginx-forever-and-crontab

The gist of it is to include this configuration

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name your-domain.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}

This seems to work for the root location - / , but fails when I add a custom folder path. Something like this -

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name your-domain.com;

    location /test/ {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }

}

My aim is to navigate to my site using example.com/test/ , so that I can list multiple paths for programs. The error I get from chrome is cannot GET example.com/test/



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If the node app will be hosted in a subfolder, it can all be done in one server block:

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name your-domain.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }

    location /test/ {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3500;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }

}

Note that the port needs to be different for each app.

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