How do I run Node.js on port 80?
The simplest solution: safely configure your node app to run on port 80.
sudo apt-get install libcap2-binsudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /path/to/node- Ta da! You're done.
Why do I like it?
- You don't have to use apache or nginx
- You don't have to run your application as root
- You won't have to forward ports (and handle that each time your machine boots)
Reference Link: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-pm2-to-setup-a-node-js-production-environment-on-an-ubuntu-vps (A great article on how to set up your node app on cloud hosting).
What you need to do is have 2 ip's for the server you are running. Apache has 1 ip bound to port 80 and then node.js has the other ip bound to port 80.
Using node and its listen directive has 2 values eg. .listen(80, NODEJS_IP or DNS NAME);
Some other advice.
I would not use apache with nodejs as it's not evented. So this really isn't recommended. I would actually look into using NGINX as its a much better pairing with Node.