I have a server on DigitalOcean that hosts my web app.
The server hosts the API (using Flask) and my web app (React).
I managed to set up the Nginx to serve the app and the API using 2 different domains.
Now I'm facing a problem.
I'm, trying to add another domain that I need to be able to access only one page in the react app.
I can't find a way to set up the configuration to allow that.
server {
server_name www.domain domain;
root /var/www/path/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
location / { deny all; }
location = / { }
location /test {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
location /favicon.ico {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
location /static/ {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot }
In my other config files I just use try_files $uri /index.html; and it works perfectly.
I need this domain to be able to accept requests for one path only (domain.com/confirm/token)
I am deploying my code onto a nginx server from Jenkins I have being following this process for a few months. There is a build script on my server box that a job configured in Jenkins picks up to know when pull down my latest changes and re build. In my nginx configuration looks like below. So you see currently getting the build folder in my root. And my build script just cp /var/www/example , npm run build, and nginx restart . Like I know the issue but Im getting confused on the proper steps to take because nginx shouldn't be getting my build folder while this script is running which is the reason im seeing 500 internal server errors whenever i run the Jenkins job.
server_name example.com www.example.com;
#return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
#ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
#ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
#include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
#ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
root /var/www/example/build/;
index index.html;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js|eot|ttf|woff|woff2)$ {
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
access_log off;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
I am using a React app as frontend and a Laravel app for backend. These two are connected with each other through Laravel Sanctum APIs. The whole environment is deployed on the server using Docker, frontend & backend being separate containers, but connected with network: someNetwork
The API call is done from the frontend using the URL HTTP://myserverip:8000 - this is working, but I would like to close the 8000 port (externally) and just keep open the 3000 port where the frontend is working. Now when I'm closing the 8000 port (with firewall), and trying to make API request from frontend I get a network error.
The question is, how to make the API request internally so I can keep only 3000 open, do I need some kind of redirection inside the .conf file of the nginx? This is my .conf file:
server {
listen 80;
index index.php index.html;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
root /var/www/public;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass app:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
gzip_static on;
}
}
Thanks, any hint would be appreciated.
What you are trying to do will never work.
ReactJS (I guess thats what you mean by ReactApp) should be "build" before used in production. The result will be a build folder with a bunch of static files.
These files can be deployed / serverd using NGINX. The API-Calls from ReactJS (your Frontend App) will always come from outside of your network as the client / customer will not be part of your Docker NAT network (I guess).
I would use NGINX as a Webserver for your ReactApp (ReactJS Build) as well as a reverse Proxy / Proxy for your Laravel Backend.
Something like:
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name example.com
.....
root /path/to/your/reactapp/static/files;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name api.example.com;
...all the laravel PHP config here
}
if you can not or want not create a subdomain for your API use a location
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name example.com
.....
root /path/to/your/reactapp/static/files;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
location /api/ {
Do your Laravel config here (use nested locations for handling the php files)
Or do a `proxy_pass` and configure an internal server (listen `8000`) and do not expose it.
}
}
So as the title says I am deploying a react app with the express backend on an ec2 instance.
What I am attempting to do to do:
(just listing this here to provide crucial context just in case I'm messing up elsewhere)
have my express production mode run on port 80 with the react build html as root.
run the build on an ec2 instance
use nginx to reverse proxy to my domain on https and port 443
run server.js on production mode via PM2
Things I am currently having trouble with:
My Nginx configuration was originally configured to try to proxy the react app running with the express app through a reverse proxy between the two. That's changed so I am trying to now have the server configured to reverse proxy everything into my app.
I was following this article as my reference but the major difference is they want me to use the nginx conf file and not the sites_enabled file which I had made my initial nginx setup. From what i can see in the article it looks like the configuration files changed layout as well so that may be outdated practice.
Here is what I currently have for Nginx sites_enabled:
listen 443 default_server;
listen [::]:443 default_server;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
root /home/ubuntu/client/build;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
location /complete {
proxy_pass https://www.example.com;
}
# managed by Certbot
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
# managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = www.example.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
if ($host = example.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 0.0.0.0:80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
}
At the time of writing this I am not able to run things like this so I can only use express setting it to port 443 and placing the certification files there.
How can I deploy these two together, I don't like the Laravel React preset, I want to separate both, bundle the React app and deploy them together with any web server (apache, nginx...)
EDIT
This is my config for Laravel, but it isn't loading the routes
server {
listen 8000;
server_name 127.0.0.1
root "..\..\Proyecto\Backend\JWT\public";
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}
}
You can run them separately using nginx
you run each on separate ports and use methods (POST/GET) to push/get data
use pm2 (http://pm2.keymetrics.io/) for running React (I recommend it because you can monitor the activity of the react app and if you want to do maintenance you can stop the current app process and run a "under maintenance" app process)
you can read more about running laravel on nginx here (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-laravel-application-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04)
as for running react without pm2, you have to build the project yarn build and tell nginx that the file you want to load is the index.html inside of the build file
assuming that you are using an ubuntu server and you uploaded your code to github or gitlab
server {
listen 50;
root /var/www/[Your repo name]/build;
server_name [your.domain.com] [your other domain if you want to];
index index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
}
you write this inside of your nginx configuration along with the laravel configuration on a separate port
hope my answer helped a bit
This was proving to be very tricky and it took me at least 3 days to put everything together. Here is what you have to do.
Run
npm run build in the react project.
Copy the contents of the build folder to the server
scp react_project/build/* <server name or ip>:/var/www/html/react
Change the ownership of the project folders to the user www-data or add your user id to the group www-data.
Now. set up the Laravel project in a different directory (in /var/www/html/laravel, for example).
Set up the database, environment variables.
Run
php artisan key:generate
php artisan config:clear
php artisan config:cache
Now, proceed with nginx configuration. Create 2 configs for react and laravel projects as given below. Make sure that the listen ports are different for both projects.
Create configuration files for react and laravel projects under /etc/nginx/sites-available
Create symlinks to the created configs under /etc/nginx/sites-enabled as given below
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/react_conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/react_conf
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/laravel_conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/laravel_conf
And for the contents,
react_conf:
server {
listen 80;
server_name <server_ip or hostname>;
charset utf-8;
root /var/www/html/react;
index index.html index.htm;
# Always serve index.html for any request
location / {
root /var/www/html/react;
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
error_log /var/log/nginx/react-app-error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/react-app-access.log;
}
laravel_conf:
server {
listen 90;
server_name <server ip or hostname>;
charset utf-8;
root /var/www/html/laravel/public;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Always serve index.html for any request
location /api {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}
error_log /var/log/nginx/laravel-app-error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/laravel-app-access.log;
}
Now, delete the default config present in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
Also, verify that /etc/nginx/nginx.conf contains the following include directive where the server configs are expected(under http)
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
Verify that the config is fine by running
sudo nginx -t
Restart the server
sudo service nginx restart
Now, you should be up and running.
You can approach it by two ways .
First one is when the you are creating react-app in different folder than the laravel project folder . In such case just deploy laravel app and react app in two different url .
The second condition is when the react-app is inside the laravel app . In such case build the react project and put the dist folder in views folder of the laravel project . So in routes/web.php add this
//Used for handling the html file of react project
View::addExtension('html', 'php');
Route::get('/{any}', function () {
//path to dist folder index.html inside the views directory
return view('build/index');
})->where('any', '.*');
Laravel will not server the required js and css file from inside the views folder . So you need copy and paste all the content of the dist folder to public folder of the laravel project . No need to copy paste index.html file but other file need to placed in the pubic folder .
After that visit the root url of the laravel project in the browser the react app should be working