Running Node.js app and PHP in same machine - php

Question

I am really confused whether it is possible ? Please help me out, I have Node.js application, say node_app, running on X port, and PHP application, say my_app, running in Apache's default 80 port. I have one domain name only. What my problem is, if user hit domain.com/my_app, it should run the PHP application in 80's port. If the user hits domain.com/node_app, it should run the node application in X port. And one more important constraint is the end-user should not see any port number in URL bar.

Answer 1

You can install Node.JS and PHP in the same host, using Nginx as proxy per exemple.
Per exemple, with Nginx, you could create two virtualhosts :
Default virtual host using PHP (FPM or not) who points to exemple.tld
Second virtual host to another node.exemple.tld
First VH is gonna be like this (with PHP-FPM) :
server {
listen 80; ## listen ipv4 port 80
root /www;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from exemple.tld
server_name exemple.tld;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000 and using HHVM or PHP
#
location ~ \.(hh|php)$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_keep_conn on;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Second VH with NodeJS :
server {
listen 80;
server_name node.exemple.tld;
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
access_log off;
# Assuming that NodeJS listen to port 8888, change if it is listening to another port!
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888/;
proxy_redirect off;
# Socket.IO Support if needed uncomment
#proxy_http_version 1.1;
#proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
#proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
# IF YOU NEED TO PROXY A SOCKET ON A SPECIFIC DIRECTORY
location /socket/ {
# Assuming that the socket is listening the port 9090
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9090;
}
}
As you can see, it's possible, and pretty easy to do!