Is it possible to serve multiple dynamic websites from one Ubuntu 20.04 droplet?

Hello @zzork

You can serve multiple websites from a droplet (whether they’re static or dynamic). You can use the tutorial on how to serve multiple static websites using virtual hosts in Apache (or server blocks in Nginx) as a reference.

The tutorial mentioned by KFC is perfect on how to setup a node.js application.

Regards

Hi @zzork,

Yes, it’s possible. all you need to do is make them listen on different ports and then use a reverse proxy like Nginx to configure it to rewrite traffic from ports 80 and 443 to the proper port. Let’s take Nginx for example, check this tutorial on how to configure it:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-20-04#step-4-setting-up-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-server

Configuring the Nginx Proxy would be pretty much the same with the difference here:

server {
...
    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;
    }
...
}

The proxy_pass in this case is using port 3000, you can create more than one Nginx config for your websites/apps and use different ports depending on what’s needed.