Using this module i'm making a websocket server on my pc.
Problem is: How do I let people connect into it? I know how to connect it from LAN(which is using ws:LANip:Port, for example:192.168.0.7:8000) but what if someone not connected in the same router, from another country(for example) wants to connect?
EDIT: And I tried using MyIP:Port but it doesn't seem to work.
Try ngrok or localtunnel. Both of them are free.
https://github.com/bubenshchykov/ngrok
https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel
To expose your local port 8000 for instance:
npm install ngrok -g
ngrok http 8000
When someone tries to connect to your external IP, they talk to your router. Your router needs to know which computer on its network to connect the external connection to. This is known as port forwarding. To find out how to do it, do a Google search for "<your router model> port forward", but first read about port forwarding in general to understand the concept itself thoroughly.
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I just made a simple chat-service with Node JS and I want to publish It " Online " ; at the time I used Ngrok and Localtunnel , but they are very limited , therefore I saw Apache web Server but I have not found tutorial on how to use it.
Thanks and hope you can help me.
Ngrok and Localtunnel are services which let you open a connection from inside your network to an external server which then forwards traffic back down the tunnel so clients on the Internet can make requests to your service running inside your LAN.
Apache is HTTP server software. It is nothing like Ngrok and Localtunnel.
While you can set up a reverse proxy using it, for that to use useful in this use case you would have to install it in your router … and most routers don't let you install software on them.
You could possibly run it on a computer inside your LAN and then configure port forwarding on the router … but if you are going to do that then you might as well forget about Apache HTTPD and just forward traffic directly to the service you've written using Node.js.
There are security risks and bandwidth considerations to take into account when running services from your LAN. It's almost always a better idea to just invest in a proper hosting service like Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean Droplets, or Heroku.
By "online" I suppose you mean to host it globally. For that my friend you will be in need of a server (preferably a cloude server) and a static IP address. Both of these are provided by a lot of providers like aws, digitalocean etc as a platform as a service, which we can leverage. So pls do the following:
Register for a cloud service (aws, digitalocean, gcp etc.).
Create a server instance of an operating system of your choice (my pref would be a linux instance).
Attach a public static ip to the server.
Log into the server. (SSH is the most secure way and most providers provide this to log into your server).
Install dependencies (in your case NodeJS etc).
Make sure that the port in which the app is hosted is open publicly. Most providers provide a dashboard in which you can configure port settings.
Use Apache or Nginx for configuring a reverse proxy (this is just for keeping your environment secure)
I am new to WebRTC and WebSockets and was following this tutorial to create a WebRTC demo project, but I am unable to create a WebSocket connection. I have followed the same steps as mentioned in the project.
His project is running on port 8080 and he mentioned ws://localhost:9090. My project is running on port 8081, but I copied his URL ws://localhost:9090 because I didn't know the significance of 9090 and I received this error and my server is node.js. i changed local host to 8081 as well but then i am getting hand shake error.
WebSocket connection to 'ws://localhost:9090/' failed: Error in
connection establishment: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
Chrome doesn't allow unsecure websocket (ws) connections to localhost (only wss, so you should setup a TLS certificate for your local web/websocket server).
However the same should work fine with Firefox.
You need to use ws://yourIp:9090/, where yourIP is like 192.168.?.?.
Usually WebRTC requires a secure connection (that is https).
The error you have got is due to TLS/SSL certificates occupied, may be they are not properly configured in your project.
Provide a valid TLS/SSL certificate and also configure it correctly in project, then it will work without the above error.
try to change the port to 8080
const ws = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:8080/chat')
I guess this is a generic websocket issue.
Change the url to a dynamic name using the built-in location.host variable and change the protocol to secure websocket wss if you have set-up the TLS:
const ws = new WebSocket("wss://" + location.host + "/")
Port 9090 is used by reactotron. Probably you are using it in your project and your app cannot connect with reactotron because it is closed. Just open reactotron and the error will disappear.
also you could easily change the mappings of IP addresses to host names,
on windows go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and uncomment this line
127.0.0.1 localhost
save and restart.
WebSocket connection to 'ws://localhost:8080/' failed
Must ensure server file is running
I git this above problem
maybe you forgot to start websocket server, check it again, with configuration in my project, run:
php artisan websocket:init
I'm experimenting with node.js and express.js.
When I try to connect to my web server from any computer in my network, it works, but then when I try to connect from outside network the connection times out.
var app = require('express')();
var http = require('http').Server(app);
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.send("Hello World");
});
http.listen(3000, '0.0.0.0', function() {
console.log("Listening on port 3000!");
});
I just tested your code and I'm able to access the server from outside my local network by navigating to:
http://173.0.[my].[ip]:3000
So the code is correct. It could be that you need to open the port 3000 to the outside world. Here's how it can be accomplished.
Through your router admin interface
Here's mine for example:
Where 192.168.1.130 is the local IP of the PC I'm running the http server on.
Don't forget to click the Save settings button in that interface to apply the changes.
Using a tool like ngrok (mentioned by eddiezane)
Install ngrok through their website or without leaving the command prompt, with the ngrok node wrapper.
npm install ngrok -g
Start your http server and then run:
ngrok http 3000
Navigate to one of the url in front of Forwarding:
The free version is more for a quick test and less as a definitive way to expose a service in a production environnement since every time you restart ngrok, a new user-hostile url is given to you.
Other possible problems
It could also be that you need to add an exception to the firewall (if on windows).
To add to Emile's answer, I would check out ngrok which is an awesome tool that generates you a publicly accessible URL for a port on your local machine.
Here's a good blog post on it my buddy wrote.
I want my development environment to be accessible from remote connections as well as local. I have changed my local.js config file to listen on port 80 and host 0.0.0.0.
netstat -ab | more output:
Port forwarding:
And my firewall is disabled. however, the app is not accessible via browser and remote IP, nor can it be seen by http://canyouseeme.org.
All the command prompt windows are run with lifted privileges.
I currently don't have the option to run it as --prod if that would change anything.
EDIT: Tried fixing problems with production environment, and running as --prod, still same problem. Also tried setting up the simplest possible node.js server, and it also had this same problem, which leads me to believe, that it's problems with my router, and not sails.js. Any ideas, what could be preventing this?
Let's make your app listen on another port (for example 1337) then forward traffic from port 80 to port 1337.
Another way, you can use Nginx in front as a reverse proxy. By this way, Nginx will handle traffic on any port (80 as your requirement) and forward to your Sails app.
Hope this helped!
I'm trying to set up a simple "Hello world" node.js app.
I've created the following index.js file:
var app = require("express")();
var http = require("http").Server(app);
app.get("/", function(req, res){
res.send("<h1>Hello worlddddd</h1>");
});
http.listen(8080, function(){
console.log("listening on *:8080");
});
When I open up my local console, and perform node index.js, I get the message "listening on *:8080", as expected. I point my browser to localhost:8080, and I see the HTML page saying "Hello worlddd", as desired.
Now, I'm trying to do the same on my Virtual Private Server, so I can access the same app from different computers, but all I get is connection timeouts. I've followed these steps:
Install node.js on my VPS
Install express via npm install --save express#4.10.2
Upload my index.js file to the var/www/html folder on my server with IP 192.123.123.12 (an example, this isn't my real IP).
Access the server via PuTTY, and run node index.js, where I get "listening on *:8080", so I know node.js is working.
Now I point my browser to http://192.123.123.12:8080 and after about 20 seconds, I get the browser error: "The connection has timed out".
I've tried listening to port :80 instead, but I get the error that this port is already in use.
Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Am I using the wrong port? Am I pointing to the wrong URL? Do I need to modify my server preferences? (running Apache on CentOS). I've only found dozens of tutorials that teach you how to run a node.js app on your local computer(pointing the browser at localhost:8080), but I need it to run on my remote server so multiple computers can access the same app.
The issue is that your current filters (iptables) block traffic unless you explicitly allow it.
You just need to open port TCP 8080 inbound, and you should be able to reach your node.js server!