php ratchet websocket SSL connect?

Question

I have a ratchet chat server file

use Ratchet\\Server\\IoServer;
use Ratchet\\WebSocket\\WsServer;
use MyAppChat\\Chat;
require dirname(__DIR__) . \'/vendor/         


        

Answer 1

Apache also worked for me, just add in domain conf:

ProxyPass /wss/ wss://127.0.0.1:8888/

Reload apache and then it's import to set wss in client side to include /wss/ location

wss://127.0.0.1/wss/

Answer 2

A few days ago I was looking for the answer of this question and I found this in the Github Ratchet issues: https://github.com/ratchetphp/Ratchet/issues/489

The last answer, answered by heidji, says this:

I only added this comment for newbies like me who need a quick instruction how to implement SSL: Via the ReactPHP docs you only need to construct the SecureServer mentioned in such manner:
$webSock = new React\Socket\Server('0.0.0.0:8443', $loop);
$webSock = new React\Socket\SecureServer($webSock, $loop, ['local_cert' => '/etc/ssl/key.pem', 'allow_self_signed' => true, 'verify_peer' => false]);
and then inject into the IoServer as mentioned by cboden above

So it seems that now there is a way to implement a secure websocket server with Ratchet without needing an HTTPS proxy.

Here you have the SecureServer class documentation: https://github.com/reactphp/socket#secureserver

Answer 3

If you are using Windows IIS, make sure that you have configured it for HTTPS (I'm using self signed certificate), then install reverse proxy:

URL rewrite: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite and ARR 3.0: https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-request-routing

You also need to enable websockets support in IIS:

create folder (e.g. myproxyfolder) for URL rewrite, on this folder create web.config file with content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="WebSocketProxy" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(.*)" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="http://127.0.0.1:8080" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

and change "http://127.0.0.1:8080" to your websocket service (I'm using Ratched for PHP on WIN).

On client side in javascript, use secure websockets wss:// protocol, like:

    mysock = new WebSocket('wss://127.0.0.1/myproxyfolder');
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