[Best practices?] If I'm running a droplet and want to use multiple urls for different node apps...?

somevelda

I setup nginx and went through this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts

And sort of went through this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-host-multiple-node-js-applications-on-a-single-vps-with-nginx-forever-and-crontab

But I messed around with the config.json file not realizing any better, but it kind of falls back on the port so I can still see my forum and but broke it and now it's having this error:

nevermind, see below

I have simple static files here showing up: http://www.violetcomics.com/

But for the forum I want the url not to show the port number and have it somewhere like http://www.violetcomics.com/forum or http://dev.violetcomics.com/forum and not have the gross port number show.

Note: I can restore a snapshot back to before installing nginx and messing up everything but is it possible to undo-EDIT - Nevermind: Snapshotted back.

Edit2: Installing nginx again...

Edit3: Re-installed nginx with one server block enabled (non-NodeBB-related), seen here: http://www.violetcomics.com/

nhl.pl

You have had default /mynodebb/server.js and it should be /mynodebb/app.js. Error has gone so I guess you're up and running.

Just remember to restart nginx after changing config files.

somevelda

@nhl.pl said:

You have had default /mynodebb/server.js and it should be /mynodebb/app.js. Error has gone so I guess you're up and running.

Just remember to restart nginx after changing config files.

Are you referring to "forever start --spinSleepTime 10000 main.js"? I had replaced "main" with "app" before restoring.

somevelda

I restarted nginx, and do so whenever I try to make changes, but it's not working... Is something like this valid? I made sure the file in sites-available and sites-enabled are linked.

upstream io_nodes {
ip_hash;
server 127.0.0.1:4567;
}

server {
listen 80;

server_name forums.violetcomics.com;

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;
proxy_redirect off;

# Socket.io Support
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

gzip            on;
gzip_min_length 1000;
gzip_proxied    off;
gzip_types      text/plain application/xml application/x-javascript text/css application/json;

location @nodebb {
    proxy_pass http://io_nodes;
}

location ~ ^/(images|language|sounds|templates|uploads|vendor|src\/modules|nodebb\.min\.js|stylesheet\.css|admin\.css) {
    root /path/to/nodebb/public/;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @nodebb;
}

location / {
    proxy_pass http://io_nodes;
}
}

Edit: Error came back. @_@ I'll get back to it later.