How to bind to unix sockets instead of port?

[vincenttide]

I would like to bind nodebb to a unix socket instead of to ports for performance reasons.

I found this post by Julian (https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/2497) discussing that it is indeed possible.

Can anyone share how to bind nodebb to a unix socket? What config files do I have to change?

[psychobunny]

Just pinging @julian because he knows best

[julian]

@vincenttide If you change the port value in your config.json to the absolute path of a unix socket, NodeBB will create the socket file there and bind to it. That's all there is to it

[vincenttide]

Thanks Julian, it works!

For anyone else that wants to do this I've attached my config.json file below:

{
    "url": "http://localhost/forum",
    "port": "/tmp/nodeenv.sock",
    "secret": "random-secret-here",
    "database": "mongo",
    "mongo": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "",
        "password": "",
        "database": "0"
    }
}