HowTo

Localhost development

Configure hosts file if you have to /etc/hosts and add your subdomain:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 my.nodewebsite.com.localhost

Open terminal in the ProtoSS node.js server folder

• Configure basic ProtoSS server

• Execute node index.js and start the server.

• Configure module Subserver

• create or copy stats.json in index.js folder

• check modules\Subserver_stats.json

• Execute node index.js and start the subserver.

• Configure example.js

• check Subserver configuration

• Execute node example.js and start the example.

• Configure your own application.js

• check example.js configuration

• configure stats.json with the right server module, you might use your own implementation

• server starts automatically, you might choose to stop it and execute different logic

• several applications requiring the same index.js will load and share the same stats.json and therefor base server module

• one application may create several different instances on different ports depending on implementation, sharing static properties with all other servers and applications pointing to the same folder

• Execute node application.js and start your app.

• Swap of ports in applications

• starting new application based on server from the same folder will throw an error

• in each of your applications sharing server folder close and listen the http server using your own port, you might choose to load it from a separate .json

• code example:

var myport = 5000;
var protossche = require('./index.js');
protossche.serverche.htserv.close().listen(myport);

Apache Configuration

Load or enable in your httpd file the proxy modules:

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

Add to your vhost configuration of ServerName my.nodewebsite.com.localhost the proxy line:

ProxyPass /node http://my.nodewebsite.com.localhost:8888/node  

/node is your base url, you might omit it in the node.js url
http://my.nodewebsite.com.localhost is your node.js host
8888 is your node.js listen port

Create folder node in the root of your domain and create .htaccess with the following code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE can be placed in several places including root .htaccess
including your main httpd file, if you have access to it

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript

Requires deflate module enabled.

LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

Sample vhost for localhost:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName my.nodewebsite.com.localhost
	ServerAlias my.nodewebsite.com.localhost
	DocumentRoot "Drive:\path\to\website"
	ProxyPass /node http://my.nodewebsite.com.localhost:8888/node
	<Directory "Drive:\path\to\website">
		Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
		AllowOverride All
		Require local
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The Apache configuration can be modified to work with NGINX server.
Caching of assets depends on all the other configurations.
Node.js works with PHP simultaneously. Logic is separated by folder.