I'm looking for a way to integrate Node.js + Socket.io + Apache in the following way:
I want apache to continue serving HTML / JS files.
I want node.js to listen for connection on port 8080. Something like this:
var util = require("util"),
app = require('http').createServer(handler),
io = require('/socket.io').listen(app),
fs = require('fs'),
os = require('os'),
url = require('url');
app.listen(8080);
function handler (req, res) {
fs.readFile(__dirname + '/index.html',
function (err, data) {
if (err) {
res.writeHead(500);
return res.end('Error loading index.html');
}
res.writeHead(200);
res.end(data);
});
}
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
socket.emit('news', { hello: 'world' });
socket.on('my other event', function (data) {
socket.emit('ok 1', { hello: 'world' });
});
socket.on('clientMSG', function (data) {
socket.emit('ok 2', { hello: 'world' });
});
});
if I access a HTML that connect to this server, it works, but I need to go to mydomian.com:8080/index.html.
What I want is to be able to go to mydomian.com/index.html. and be able to open a socket connection:
<script>
var socket = io.connect('http://mydomain.com', {port: 8080});
socket.on('news', function (data) {
console.log(data);
socket.emit('my other event', { my: 'data from the client' });
});
socket.on('connect', function (data) {
console.log("connect");
});
socket.on('disconnect', function (data) {
console.log("disconnect");
});
//call this function when a button is clicked
function sendMSG()
{
console.log("sendMSG");
socket.emit('clientMSG', { msg: 'non-scheduled message from client' });
}
</script>
In this example I had to use fs.readFile of wont work when I go to the port 8080 in the URL.
Any suggestions? Tks.
Serve your static content from Apache port 80 and serve your dynamic/data content over a Socket.IO server on port 8080. You don't need the app = require('http').createServer(handler)
in your Socket.IO app
Apache port 80 |-------------| clients |------------| Socket.IO port 8080
var io = require('socket.io').listen(8080);
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
io.sockets.emit('this', { will: 'be received by everyone'});
socket.on('clientMSG', function (from, msg) {
console.log('I received a private message by ', from, ' saying ', msg);
});
socket.on('disconnect', function () {
sockets.emit('user disconnected');
});
});
AWS + APACHE + NODEJS + SOCKET.IO + ANGULARJS
SERVER SIDE
This worked for me on a production server running apache on port 80 and NodeJS
on port 8000. Change the NodeJS port by your desired option…
- Create a folder named “nodejs” for the files of the NodeJS server at /var/www/html
- Run Nodejs on a different port than 80, for example port 8000
- Execute command: a2enmod proxy_http
- Execute command: a2enmod proxy_wstunnel
Put the next 2 lines at the end of the following file: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so
Put the next 12 lines at the end of the following file: /sites-available/000-default.conf
(If you have a different site created by you, put the lines there)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^socket.io [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} transport=websocket [NC]
RewriteRule /{.*} ws://localhost:8000/$1 [P,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} Upgrade [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) ws://localhost:8000/$1 [P,L]
ProxyPass /nodejs http://localhost:8000/
ProxyPassReverse /nodejs http://localhost:8000/
ProxyPass /socket.io http://localhost:8000/socket.io
ProxyPassReverse /socket.io http://loacalhost:8000/socket.io
ProxyPass /socket.io ws://localhost:8000/socket.io
ProxyPassReverse /socket.io ws://localhost:8000/socket.io
sudo service apache2 restart
CLIENT SIDE
I use the following library to implement Socket.io in AngularJS, but
I think this guide
is useful too for a basic Javascript implementation of socket.io technology.
To call my PHP server: example.com
To call NodeJS server: example.com/nodejs
To call NodeJS Socket: example.com <---this call will be done by default by the library
I hope help you!