Question
How to run nodejs with apache for ubuntu 12.04
- Posted on December 29, 2014
Asked by dr.youssef
Hello, I’m trying to run an application in php with chat in nodejs and socket io I follow this exemple https://github.com/hmagdy/ChatNodejsZendSocketio My application has the same architecture and it works well in localhost, but i have some problem to deploy my application in the server. I’ve tried this solution http://garr.me/blog/running-node-js-and-apache-together-using-mod_proxy/ But I got a “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” error,
My virtual host config is
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@site.com
ServerName test.site.com
ServerAlias www.site.com
ProxyRequests off
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
<Location />
ProxyPass http://test.site.com:8080/
ProxyPassReverse http://test.site.com:8080/
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
My client.js
$(document).ready(function() {
socket = io.connect('http://test.site.com:8080');
blabla
And server.js
var app = require('express').createServer()
var io = require('socket.io').listen(app);
app.listen(8080);
blabla ...
Can you please help me to figureout what i’m doing wrong. Thank you.
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Hello, I finally fix it. I change the location to my project path
And to run node server.js in background i used Forever
install forever globally
Navigate to your Node.js application:
and run the server/main JavaScript file with forever:
Where --spinSleepTime 10000 refers to the minimum uptime (in milliseconds) between launches of a crashing script. This command will work for almost all cases.
Source
Use apache as a reverse proxy for nodejs, serves static files from apache directly. Side note: IMHO apache is not the right front end for nodejs because it is not event base I use nginx instead. AFAIK the socket.io may not work behind apache, works perfectly on nginx You will need an upgrade for http protocol somewehere and some extra header to tell node that it stays behind a reverse proxy.