How to connect to a nodejs express server through proxy - node.js

Question

We have a nodejs http server running on port 8090 on IP 182.74.215.86 and we want to connect to this server via proxy 104.236.147.107:56220.
Our client code is
this.socket = require('socket.io-client').connect(url,
{
// This line ensures that each client connection will have different client.id
'force new connection': true,
});
this.socket.once('connect', function()
{
})
.on('disconnect', function()
{
})
.on('error', function(e)
{
console.error("(storetalk.js) ASL: Unable to connect to garuda gateway:- " + e);
});

Answer 1

I have solved this issue using NGinx.
Installed nginx on my red hat server on ip 192.168.10.238
My node application server is running on same ip on port 8090
configured nginx to listen on 8020 and configured it with to support socket.io
my nodejs client is connected to application server via this nginx proxy
Below is my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf configuration file
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events
{
worker_connections 1024;
}
http
{
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade
{
default upgrade;
'' close;
}
server
{
listen 8020;
location /
{
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
proxy_pass http://192.168.10.238:8090;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
}
}