How to change parse server mount url to main root url "/" - node.js

Question

Here is my index.js file, i have changed below line so i can mount the parse server in root url for example parse.example.com:1337 instead of parse.example.com:1337/parse but Im not sure if it is correct way and i have very little experience with nodejs and javascript
"var mountPath = process.env.PARSE_MOUNT || '/parse';" to " var mountPath = process.env.PARSE_MOUNT || '/';"
index.js
var express = require('express');
var ParseServer = require('parse-server').ParseServer;
var path = require('path');
var databaseUri = process.env.DATABASE_URI || process.env.MONGODB_URI;
if (!databaseUri) {
console.log('DATABASE_URI not specified, falling back to localhost.');
}
var api = new ParseServer({
databaseURI: databaseUri || 'mongodb://parse:secretpass#127.0.0.1:27017/parsedb',
cloud: process.env.CLOUD_CODE_MAIN || __dirname + '/cloud/main.js',
appId: process.env.APP_ID || 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
masterKey: process.env.MASTER_KEY || 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', //Add your master key here. Keep it secret!
serverURL: process.env.SERVER_URL || 'http://localhost:1337/', // Don't forget to change to https if needed
liveQuery: {
classNames: ["Posts", "Comments"] // List of classes to support for query subscriptions
}
});
var app = express();
// Serve static assets from the /public folder
app.use('/public', express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/public')));
// Serve the Parse API on the /parse URL prefix
var mountPath = process.env.PARSE_MOUNT || '/';
app.use(mountPath, api);
// Parse Server plays nicely with the rest of your web routes
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.status(200).send('I dream of being a website. Please star the parse-server repo on GitHub!');
});
// There will be a test page available on the /test path of your server url
// Remove this before launching your app
app.get('/test', function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '/public/test.html'));
});
var port = process.env.PORT || 1337;
var httpServer = require('http').createServer(app);
httpServer.listen(port, function() {
console.log('parse-server-example running on port ' + port + '.');
});
// This will enable the Live Query real-time server
ParseServer.createLiveQueryServer(httpServer);

Answer 1

You could use NGINX as a reverse proxy.
Install the nginx package:
sudo apt-get install -y nginx
Open /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
Replace it with the following:
# HTTP - redirect all requests to HTTPS
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
# HTTPS - serve HTML from /usr/share/nginx/html, proxy requests to /parse/
# through to Parse Server
server {
listen 443;
server_name your_domain_name;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
ssl on;
# Use certificate and key
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/your_domain_name/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/your_domain_name/privkey.pem;
ssl_session_timeout 5m;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';
# Pass requests for /parse/ to Parse Server instance at localhost:1337
location /parse/ {
rewrite ^/parse(/.*)$ $1 break;# this is the line that will redirect to root url
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
proxy_pass http://localhost:1337/;
proxy_ssl_session_reuse off;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
}
Save, exit and restart
sudo service nginx restart
Update:
Parse Server needs an ssl certificate to work by default, you can disable it but it is very strongly recommended to only use it via HTTPS.
I am using Lets Encrypt certificates, if you need help creating them I can show you a tutorial I wrote, or you can use your own certificates.