peppy

peppy OP

Starting with a fresh install of Phoenix on a Ubuntu 20.04 server with Apache2, what are the specific steps for setting up a reverse proxy (what should the block of code in apache be exactly? what do I edit in the phoenix app files?)

By default, Phoenix runs fine on: https://www.mysite.com:4000/

I want it to run on: https://www.mysite.com/ex/ (without the port 4000 in the URL)

The “Welcome To Phoenix” page and all css/js/image files should load, the live view frame should load and the sockets should work with no errors.

Right now, I have something like the following in my Apache config:

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.mysite.com
ServerAlias mysite.com
 <Location /ex/>
    ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:4000/
    ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:4000/
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

In Phoenix, I edited config/config.exs to something like this:

config :exchat, ExchatWeb.Endpoint,
  url: [host: "localhost", path: "/ex"],

At the moment, the phoenix page on the website (css/js/images) loads up fine, but the sockets aren’t working. In the console, I’m seeing repeating errors like:

WebSocket connection to 'wss://www.mysite.com/socket/websocket?token=undefined&vsn=2.0.0' failed
WebSocket connection to 'wss://www.mysite.com/ex/phoenix/live_reload/socket/websocket?vsn=2.0.0' failed

Thanks

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derek-zhou

derek-zhou

Running an application involve phoenix sockets not at the root path is tricky. Do you really want to do that? In the old time, people do this to save a separate https cert. now that letsencrypt is free, most people will just make another sub domain and build a virtual host.

If you really want to do this, check your app.js for the socket connection statement. You may want to fix that to your path prefix.

peppy

peppy OP

Thanks for the suggestion, it didn’t cross my mind to use a sub-domain. Based on my reading, I just assumed using Phoenix on a domain directory path was standard practice.

Aetherus

Aetherus

Using separate subdomains has some extra benefits:

  • Cookies are managed separately by default. There’s no need to specify the path option in cookies.
  • CORS strategies can be configured separately so that your applications are more secure than sharing the same domain.
  • Your URLs are shorter and easier to remember.
derek-zhou

derek-zhou

Depends on how do you define standard. If you do not use socket, then it is just as simple as adding a path to endpoint config. If you use socket, the js part need to be modified accordingly. I pass the application root through a data attributes of the the body tag, and connect the lv socket using that. This way the socket path is “float” wrt to the location:

https://github.com/derek-zhou/liv/blob/daf91cccc953f0096d5cbee5f847d4ece8d6f4f3/assets/js/app.js#L173

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