I'm a LAMP guy, and now start learning WebSockets via Ratchet. So far so good following the start up docs here, and hence i'm able to run the Ratchet Server, like this:
$ php server.php
And then my Javascript Clients can connect to it, etc.
But..
As a LAMP guy, i'm very used to have Apache (or) NGINX as the "Server" for any PHP files to serve to public. Now... should i just run that above command in my terminal, and that's gonna be the Ratchet Server?
Is there a way NOT to run the server like that? (or) Is there a way to let Apache (as an example) manage the Ratchet Server? Which means, let Apache start/stop the Ratchet whenever i type:
$ service httpd start
$ service httpd stop
I'm more confident this way. Plus, the SSL handling, etc also would be then done by Apache more easily. Am i right please?
Please kindly suggest, as i'm very new to this area. Thanks all :)
You indeed are right that running it in the command line is not a production ready solution.
In the last page of the tutorial (deployment) there are some ways to do it. For example, hypervisor is entirely explained how to set it up there.
If you don't like hypervisor usage, then you could try to just write a shell script which is executed on startup, that starts the server.php (less good solution, yet easier)
The ssl part you want to use is possible using a proxy with apache.
If you are using Apache web server (2.4 or above), enable these modules in httpd.conf file :
mod_proxy.so
mod_proxy_wstunnel.so
Add this setting to your httpd.conf file
ProxyPass /wss2/ ws://ratchet.mydomain.org:8888/
If you have any more questions please let me know.
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The situation
I have been developing in php and using wamp for the past 2 years. Then I come across a module to implement a chat system followed by instant notifications. So I go look it up and found this awesome "nodejs" that allows you to connect to connected users in realtime.
This guy nodejs socket.io and php uploaded a way to integrate nodejs socket.io and php without node server.
So I downloaded his project (github) and ran it on my computer but it gave
connection refused error from 8080 So,
I go to nodejs site and install nodejs on my system (windows). It automatically updated my environment variables and I could just go to my command line to run a example project as
path(...)node nodeServer.js
and then run the index file of the project from the shared link and it starts working. everything runs smooth and nice.
MY QUESTION
If without installing nodejs on my system I cannot run the node app in the small example project then how am I supposed to install nodejs on live server (apache) and use command line to start nodejs.
I know this might be too silly but I am really new to nodejs so I don't know if I can run node on live php server. If it is possible then can anyone tell me how can I do that ? or is it just an ideal situation and can't be done.
Node.js do not need to be installed with Apache. Node.js itself provide a server that would listen on a port. You can use Apache or Nginx to use proxy. You can run your application without these server also.
Create a file index.js using the code below and run node index.js
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');
Open you browser and enter this url : http://127.0.0.1:1337/ You will see Hello World over there. In this case nodejs is listening on port 1337
If you are using cloud or VPS or any kind of solution that allows you full control of stuff installed, you can just install node.js there and run what you need...
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/installing-node.js-via-package-manager
some services will allow you to pick what gets installed... so you just pick nodejs and run it alongside your apache.
However, if you are using shared hosting solution, there is limited number of those actually even hosting node (if any) and solving this would be almost impossible for you.
Second Edit: Sorry for editing twice, but there is a thing with "no nodejs server" in mentioned stackoverflow post - there is actually a server and mentioned need to npm install certain modules... this is not right way to do this, but if you still want to try this you need node installed (and npm along with it) and then you need to npm isntall mentioned packages, add simple server file quoted in the post, run it and then have all you need for your chat...
If you need some help, ping me, but if this is time critical project, rather find some third party solution... and then learn about this one.
TLDR find a hosting service that'll give u admin and support firewall requests, or self host w/ a free dns subdomain and have a script update your ip so you dont have to pay for static.
My Experiences:
You can actually utilize node for input/output stream manipulation as well. Look at gulp and node for more info. Using bower and bluebird on top of a git project makes setting up apps very easy and quick via node.
As for using socket.io w/ a node/wamp setup, I've actually used this in the past. I had wamp installed on the server initially, but I used the apache directives to reverse proxy requests on 8080 to the node.js app from the client scripts.
I did have to install node separately, though, so you'll need something like ramnode maybe (I think they allow hosted apps like iis/mvc etc too).
Easiest hosting setup for development imo was self host wamp/node w/ a free subdomain from afraid.dns.
Otherwise ramnode gives you full access to admin features on your vm, i believe. So you may be able to install node there as long as you request firewall permissions when needed for xtra ports (socket.io used diff ports for requests on page so I didnt have to worry about CORs crap or anything).
I have created a simple website that will help me in my many projects by creating a sub domain for each new website project that I take on.
I keep going back to the older websites I've created so I have decided to keep all of them as a sub domain on localhost.
My PHP code works fine to add the information to the relevant files.
But I need to restart Apache for the changes to take affect.
I know PHP runs from the Apache service. Is it possible therefor to stop and start or even restart the Apache service from PHP code?
Yes, with exec()
exec("apachectl restart");
You might want to allow programs to close themselves before just shutting down the server, so I'd recommend:
exec("apachectl graceful");
Make sure PHP doesn't run in safemode (<= PHP 5.3), as these functions won't be available then.
Please note, this is how I restart apache on my server, you might have to adjust the command.
Also think about the permissions. Not all users (and probably not the one running php scripts) have permission to stop the server.
I've set a linux (ubuntu serv) as a RMTP server using nginx , and i'd like to be able to restart the service from a web interface as it does crashes from time to time.
I was thinking php would be great to send command line to linux , but the only way i found is to use exec()and give root permissions to www-data which doesn not sound like a good idea.
I also dont want to restart the server by itself , only the rmtp service (other stuffs running on this server)
so to sum up , i'd like to be able to send command line to a linux on a web interface w/e the language/technology is used
thanks guys and sorry for my bad english
You do not have to reinvent the wheel. There are tools out there for monitoring services. They will restart them if needed.
Take a look at
monit
http://mmonit.com/monit/
and
supervisord
http://supervisord.org/
I'm very new to socket programming, but do lot of coding with php.
I have tested some socket server example codes and worked fine with localhost. I use CLI to run the server. But my concern is how do I run the socket server .php file at my hosting server? Do hosting providers normally give access to CLI to run the servers? How do I make sure my server is always running? If the hosting server is restarted, what happens to my server? In case, my server crashes (whatever reason), do I have to run it manually?
Can someone help?
If you are talking about a hosting server I expect you are talking about shared hosting. In that case it will be difficult to keep it stable if you even manage to run the service etc. I would suggests using at least a VPS for it. That way you can run it in the background, automatically start it at reboot but also install software to check the process and restart it if it failed.
For example: Testing whether the reboot startup works is impossible at shared hosting.
I don't know if your provider give you ssh access. Some provider do it but this are managed server or root server.
Then you can run your script over the CLI.
When you can run your server over CLI and when you have enough rights you can insert the script to the runlevel. And there is something that is called "shebang". With this you can give your script direct the php interpreter and run the script without the php command before.
php test.php or /usr/bin/php testScript.php
You can run direct run your script with test.php or name your script only testScript.
When you put your script to /usr/local/bin (for debian) you can run it everytime over the command like the php command.
Edit: I have forgotten something. For this solution you have to copy the /etc/init.d/skeleton to /etc/init.d/runPHPSocketServer for example and change the script values on top. Then you can insert it to the runlevel.
#: testScript or runPHPSocketServer start
When the script is under a executable directory you can insert it to your system runlevel.
#: update-rc.d runPHPSocketServer defaults
So you see there are some solution but for the most solutions you need ssh access.
I was wondering, whether knockd http://www.zeroflux.org/cgi-bin/cvstrac.cgi/knock/wiki would be a good was to be able to restart apache without logging into ssh. But my programming question was whether there is a way to send tcp/udp packages via PHP so I can knock via a webclient.
I am aware that this is not the safest way of doing it, but I will only want to do things like update the svn, restart apache without having any passwords in it like with using ssh to do that.
You may use fsockopen() functions... but what you are doing(and the way you are doing it) is very risky from a security standpoit.. as it had been said, ssh is the way:)
If you really want to restart the apache server by using remote access (non-ssh) you can create a small php-daemon, that just watches for a specific file,(ex: /tmp/restart.apache) and when that file appears run exec("/etc/init.d/apache restart") (or whatever the command is for your distribution). This daemon should run as root... and the thing is that the whole security thing is up to you this way, you have to make sure this cannot get arbitrarly executed...
Your portknock ideea... a simple port scanner may restart your apache by mistake:) portknock is recommented to be used in conjunction with a ssh auth , not directly with apache:)
Seriously, you do not want to do what your trying to do.
You should look into calling your remote server through some sort of secure protocol, like SSH. And on the client side, have a small PHP utility application/script that executes remote SSH commands (preferably with a keyfile only based authentication mechanism).
Why not have a PHP script that calls "svn update"? As long as the files are writeable by the user Apache runs as, it works great. Just hit that URL to update the website
For SVN you have whole PHP api, try search SVN on php.net