[Solved] Access to my NodeBB by subdomain

Tiiix

Hi there,
I'm on a Debian 8, and I try to configure my Nodebb for make an access by subdomain.mydomain.com. But, at this moment, after I do a proxy redirection in my Apache config, my Nodebb is available on mydomain.com but available too on my subdomain...
So, I would like to put only my NodeBB on my subdomain, and leave free the index of my Apache directory

How can I do that ?

My Apache configuration :

<VirtualHost *:80>
        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
        #ServerName www.example.com

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf

        <Proxy *>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Proxy>
        ProxyPass /socket.io/1/websocket ws://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/1/websocket
        ProxyPassReverse /socket.io/1/websocket ws://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/1/websocket
        ProxyPass /socket.io/ http://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/
        ProxyPassReverse /socket.io/ http://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/
        ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:4567/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:4567/

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:4567>

        Servername subdomain.mydomain.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]

        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nodebb
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/nodebb-error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/nodebb-access.log combined

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =subdomain.mydomain.com
        RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

Thanks

Per0x

Can't you just set that up in the DNS config on your domain name ?

Dravere

Have a look at the documentation: https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/proxies/apache/

No ServerAlias needed and just put your subdomain.domain.tld as your ServerName.

Tiiix

@per0x said in Access to my NodeBB by subdomain:

Can't you just set that up in the DNS config on your domain name ?

What do you mean?

@Dravere thnx, I'm testing this and telling you if it's okay;)

Per0x

@tiiix I mean that in the DNS config, you could redirect mydomain.com to another ip or other domain and on subdomain.mydomain.com redirect to your NodeBB IP location. Thus, Nodebb would only be accessible from the subdomain and not mydomain.com.

Tiiix

So, with this configuration, it's ok !

<VirtualHost *:80>
     
        ServerName mydomain.com

        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
              RewriteEngine On
                RewriteRule ^[^\/]*\/(.*) https://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
        </IfModule>

RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =mydomain.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:4567>
    ServerName subdomain.mydomain.com

    # Basic security headers
    Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
    Header always set X-Xss-Protection "1; mode=block"

    # NodeBB header
    RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Proto "https"
    # Static file cache
    <FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css)$">
        <IfModule mod_expires.c>
            ExpiresActive on
            ExpiresDefault "access plus 14 days"
            Header set Cache-Control "public"
        </IfModule>
    </FilesMatch>

    ProxyRequests off
    <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Proxy>

    # Custom Error Document when NodeBB is offline
    ProxyPass /error-documents !
    ErrorDocument 503 /error-documents/503.html
    Alias /error-documents path/to/nodebb/public

    # Websocket passthrough
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/socket.io            [NC]
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} transport=websocket    [NC]
    RewriteRule /(.*)           ws://localhost:4567/$1 [P,L]

    ProxyPass / http://localhost:4567/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:4567/

    # Log stuff
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/nodebb-error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/nodebb-access.log combined
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =subdomain.mydomain.com
    RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

The problem is that I had not put 2 different ServerName in the config, so all traffic was redirected and rewritten in HTTPS on the same ServerName : subdomain.mydomain.com

RuxiMax

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