Sails.JS HTTP + HTTPS

Question

I am trying to figure out how to lift a sails app that responds to both HTTP and HTTPS requests. I used the config/local.js method of configuring express like so (detailed h

Answer 1

To have both HTTP & HTTPS, avoiding the redirection way:

Configure your SSL key & cert and HTTPS port in your /config/env/production.js:

var fs = require( 'fs' );
module.exports = {
    port: 443,
    ssl: {
        key: fs.readFileSync( 'ssl_key.key' ),
        cert: fs.readFileSync( 'ssl_key.crt' )
    }
    //, ...
};

Then, listen port 80 with a second HTTP server into /config/bootstrap.js:

var http = require( 'http' );
module.exports.bootstrap = function ( cb ) {
    // ...
    if ( process.env.NODE_ENV == 'production' )
        http.createServer( sails.hooks.http.app ).listen( 80 );
    // ...
};

Answer 2

I was able to get http and https running with sails by modifying my configs/local.js file:

var fs = require('fs');
var local = ... // Your default local.js settings should go here
if(require('optimist').argv.https) {
    local.express = {
        serverOptions : {
            key: fs.readFileSync('ssl/server.key'),
            cert: fs.readFileSync('ssl/server.crt')
        }
    };
    local.port = 1338; // This port should be different than your default port
}
module.exports = local;

Now you will need to run your sails app twice. The first time type in your regular sails lift command. The second time run sails lift --https

This should allow you to have both http and https servers running off of the same codebase. As some other people have mentioned, nginx is a much better solution for handling this sort of this, but if you are doing local development and don't want to have to install nginx the solution above is just fine.