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Ivo Yankulovski edited this page Sep 15, 2019 · 30 revisions

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 node.js server folder

Execute node index.js and start the server.

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.

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