How to set up an apache proxy for Meteor/SockJS and WebSocket?

Question

I have an apache proxy for a meteor app and apache and meteor are on two separate machines. I need it that way as apache has to serve a lot of real websites and it wouldn\'t

Answer 1

After reading several answers, posting on the Meteor forum, and a lot of trials here is the whole enchilada that worked for me. The other answers were somewhat incomplete, or at least didn't work for me.

I had to do:

sudo a2enmod proxy_wstunnel 

Also had to add a ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse and changed ^Upgrade$ to Upgrade$ from another SO answer.

    ServerName  some-domain.com

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:UPGRADE} ^WebSocket$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:CONNECTION} Upgrade$ [NC]
    RewriteRule .* ws://localhost:3000%{REQUEST_URI} [P]

    ProxyPass / http://localhost:3000/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:3000/

then restart Apache.

I checked on the console and there is no error now and no xhr requests. So I assume it's working correctly