Question

When connecting Apache Tomcat web-apps to an existing Apache website, mod_jk can be loaded to give a web application an Alias within Apache.

Are there any similar modules for connecting node.js to Apache?

Answer 1

Found the answer here and tested it out on my own local webserver.

Just like @othiym23 said you have to use Apache’s mod_proxy and mod_rewrite to make it work.

You can add a relatively simple rule to your .htaccess file like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On

 RewriteRule ^tiddlywiki5.*$ http://whereNodeDotJSIsRunning:8080/ [P]


</IfModule>

And this will yield a URL like http://yourApacheServer.com/tiddlywiki5/ from which you can visit your node.js server through Apache2. The [P] flag at the end of the rule is used to forward the request to a different server via mod_proxy and return it to the user as though they were visiting http://yourApacheServer.com/tiddlywiki5/