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Running behind a web server

Running behind a web server

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Running behind a web server

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- [Instructor] Usually we don't want Node.js to directly serve a website. Things like SSL or TLS encryption are doable, but a web server was exactly made for such a task. That's why the most common setup is running Express Apps behind some reverse proxy like Nginx. On my EC2 instance, I've already installed Engine X and I used Let's Encrypt to install and setup a free SSL certificate. I've also already took care of the proxy configuration. Let's look into it real quick. So I'm going into /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default, and there now see this section with location /. So the most important part is the proxy_pass directive here. This tells Nginx to reverse proxy everything to localhost on port 3000. For complete overview of all the proxy directives, please refer to the Nginx documentation. To let Express run behind the proxy properly, we also have to make a few adoptions to the code. So I had backed individual studio code, and in app.js I will now make a few adjustments. First of all I…

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