Setting up a websocket on Apache?

Question

So I\'m doing some research on websockets, and I have a few questions I can\'t seem to find a definitive answer for:

• How can I set up a web socket on my Lin

Answer 1

I struggled to understand the proxy settings for websockets for https therefore let me put clarity here what i realized.

First you need to enable proxy and proxy_wstunnel apache modules and the apache configuration file will look like this.

    
      ServerName www.example.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/your_project_public_folder

      SSLEngine on
      SSLCertificateFile    /etc/ssl/certs/path_to_your_ssl_certificate
      SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/path_to_your_ssl_key

      
              Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
              AllowOverride All
              Require all granted
              php_flag display_errors On
      
      ProxyRequests Off 
      ProxyPass /wss/  ws://example.com:port_no

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
    

in your frontend application use the url "wss://example.com/wss/" this is very important mostly if you are stuck with websockets you might be making mistake in the front end url. You probably putting url wrongly like below.

wss://example.com:8080/wss/ -> port no should not be mentioned
ws://example.com/wss/ -> url should start with wss only.
wss://example.com/wss -> url should end with / -> most important

also interesting part is the last /wss/ is same as proxypass value if you writing proxypass /ws/ then in the front end you should write /ws/ in the end of url.