Running multiple sites on node.js

Question

I\'m planning to do three sites using node.js. I have got some common templates among the sites. Should I run all three sites on single node.js instance?

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Answer 1

I myself just had to do this exact same thing. What you want to do is use some sort of reverse proxy.

The one I use is here: https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy

Simply install the proxy package: npm install http-proxy

What I do is have the proxy running on the server on port 80. I set the DNS up on each domain to point to this server.

Each application is running on the same server (im using screens).

For example:

MySiteApplication1 - 3001
MySiteApplication2 - 3002
MySiteApplication3 - 3003

Then your proxy server file would look like this

var httpProxy = require('http-proxy');

var server = httpProxy.createServer({
   router: {
     'mysite1.com': 'localhost:3001',
     'mysite2.com': 'localhost:3002',
     'mysite3.com': 'localhost:3003'
   }
});

server.listen 80