In my socket.io code,
socket.sockets.on('connection', function(client){
var ip = client.handshake.address.address;
..
}
ip always returns 127.0.0.1 and this is because the server sits behind a proxy.
How do I get remote address properly ?
Edit: I am using http-proxy
yes, this is working for me.
client.handshake.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || client.handshake.address.address;
I am properly getting the remote IP address and not 127.0.0.1
In version > 1.0, the syntax is similar:
socket.handshake.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || socket.request.connection.remoteAddress;
For people who may come from Google, using NGINX: none of these worked for me, I followed the answer in this other question and modified my proxy_pass, to create a new header that node could then use. Don't forget to call sudo systemctl restart nginx after.
Related
I have a pretty straight-forward question. I made a web game with NodeJS, and I can successfully play it by myself with multiple browser windows open side-by-side; however, I'd like to know if it's possible for other local machines to be able to access and play the game with me too.
I naively tried using this url: my-ip-address:8000 and it won't work.
Your node.js server is running on a port determined at the end of the script usually. Sometimes 3000. but can be anything. The correct way for others to access is as you say...
http://your.network.ip.address:port/
e.g.
http://192.168.0.3:3000
Check you have the correct port - and the IP address on the network - not the internet IP.
Otherwise, maybe the ports are being blocked by your router. Try using 8080 or 80 to get around this - otherwise re-configure your router.
If you are using a router then:
Replace server.listen(yourport, 'localhost'); with server.listen(yourport, 'your ipv4 address');
in my machine it is
server.listen(3000, '192.168.0.3');
Make sure yourport is forwarded to your ipv4 address.
On Windows Firewall, tick all on Node.js:Server-side JavaScript.
I had the same question and solved the problem. In my case, the Windows Firewall (not the router) was blocking the V8 machine I/O on the hosting machine.
Go to windows button
Search "Firewall"
Choose "Allow programs to communicate through Firewall"
Click Change Setup
Tick all of "Evented I/O for V8 Javascript" OR "Node.js: Server-side Javascript"
My guess is that "Evented I/O for V8 Javascript" is the I/O process that node.js communicates to outside world and we need to free it before it can send packets outside of the local computer. After enabling this program to communicate over Windows firewall, I could use any port numbers to listen.
One tip that nobody has mentioned yet is to remember to host the app on the LAN-accessible address 0.0.0.0 instead of the default localhost. Firewalls on Mac and Linux are less strict about this address compared to the default localhost address (127.0.0.1).
For example,
gatsby develop --host 0.0.0.0
yarn start --host 0.0.0.0
npm start --host 0.0.0.0
You can then access the address to connect to by entering ifconfig or ipconfig in the terminal. Then try one of the IP addresses on the left that does not end in .255 or .0
Faced similar issue with my Angular Node Server(v6.10.3) which set up in WIndows 10.
http://localhost:4201 worked fine in localhost. But http://{ipaddress}:4201 not working in other machines in local network.
For this I updated the ng serve like this
//Older ng serve in windows command Prompt
ng serve --host localhost --port 4201
//Updated ng serve
//ng serve --host {ipaddress} --port {portno}
ng serve --host 192.168.1.104 --port 4201
After doing this modification able to access my application in other machines in network bt calling this url
http://192.168.1.104:4201
//http://{ipaddress}:4201
The port is probably blocked by your local firewall or router. Hard to tell without details.
But there is a simple solution for which you don't have to mess with firewall rules, run node as a privileded process to serve on port 80, etc...
Check out Localtunnel. Its a great Ruby script/service, which allows you to make any local port available on the internet within seconds. It's certainly not useful for a production setup, but to try out a game with colleagues, it should work just fine!
const express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.listen(Port Number, "Your IP Address");
// e.g.
app.listen(3000, "192.183.190.3");
You can get your IP Address by typing ipconfig in cmd if your Windows user else you can use ifconfig.
After trying many solution and lot of research I did to the following to make sure my localhost is accessible from other machine in same network. I didn't start my server with IPAddress as parameter to listen method as suggested by others in this question. I did the following to make sure my local node js server is accessible from other machine on same local network. My node server is running in Windows 10 machine.
Open "Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security"
Select "Inbound Rules" in the left pane.
In the list of available rules, "Node.js Server-side Javascript" has "Block the connection" radio checked. Change this to "Allow the connection".
Please see the attached screenshot:
After these changes, I am able to access my localhost using http://IPAddress:Port/
Thanks.
And Don't Forget To Change in Index.html Following Code :
<script src="http://192.168.1.4:8000/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
var socket = io.connect('http://192.168.1.4:8000');
Good luck!
This worked for me and I think this is the most basic solution which involves the least setup possible:
With your PC and other device connected to the same network , open cmd from your PC which you plan to set up as a server, and hit ipconfig to get your ip address.
Note this ip address. It should be something like "192.168.1.2" which is the value to the right of IPv4 Address field as shown in below format:
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : ffff::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffad%14
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Start your node server like this : npm start <IP obtained in step 1:3000> e.g. npm start 192.168.1.2:3000
Open browser of your other device and hit the url: <your_ip:3000> i.e. 192.168.1.2:3000 and you will see your website.
put this codes in your server.js :
app.set('port', (80))
app.listen(app.get('port'), () => {
console.log('Node app is running on port', app.get('port'))
})
after that if you can't access app on network disable firewall like this :
ngrok allows you to expose a port on the internet with custom forwarding refs:
$ npx ngrok http 8000
First, check your ipv4 address. In my case my ipv4 address is 192.168.44.112. If you don't know your ipv4 address, run this command on cmd.
ipconfig
Follow this code...
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const port = process.env.port || 8000
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send("Hello Network!")
});
app.listen(port, '192.168.77.112', ()=>{
console.log(`Listening port on ${port}`)
});
In Ubuntu you can fix this by allowing a specific port or port range:
sudo ufw allow PORT-NUMBER/tcp
example:
sudo ufw allow 3000/tcp
or a range:
sudo ufw allow 3000:3001/tcp
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
}).listen(80, '127.0.0.1');
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:80/');
By default node will run on every IP address exposed by the host on which it runs. You don't need to do anything special. You already knew the server runs on a particular port. You can prove this, by using that IP address on a browser on that machine:
http://my-ip-address:port
If that didn't work, you might have your IP address wrong.
I had this problem. The solution was to allow node.js through the server's firewall.
I have a pretty straight-forward question. I made a web game with NodeJS, and I can successfully play it by myself with multiple browser windows open side-by-side; however, I'd like to know if it's possible for other local machines to be able to access and play the game with me too.
I naively tried using this url: my-ip-address:8000 and it won't work.
Your node.js server is running on a port determined at the end of the script usually. Sometimes 3000. but can be anything. The correct way for others to access is as you say...
http://your.network.ip.address:port/
e.g.
http://192.168.0.3:3000
Check you have the correct port - and the IP address on the network - not the internet IP.
Otherwise, maybe the ports are being blocked by your router. Try using 8080 or 80 to get around this - otherwise re-configure your router.
If you are using a router then:
Replace server.listen(yourport, 'localhost'); with server.listen(yourport, 'your ipv4 address');
in my machine it is
server.listen(3000, '192.168.0.3');
Make sure yourport is forwarded to your ipv4 address.
On Windows Firewall, tick all on Node.js:Server-side JavaScript.
I had the same question and solved the problem. In my case, the Windows Firewall (not the router) was blocking the V8 machine I/O on the hosting machine.
Go to windows button
Search "Firewall"
Choose "Allow programs to communicate through Firewall"
Click Change Setup
Tick all of "Evented I/O for V8 Javascript" OR "Node.js: Server-side Javascript"
My guess is that "Evented I/O for V8 Javascript" is the I/O process that node.js communicates to outside world and we need to free it before it can send packets outside of the local computer. After enabling this program to communicate over Windows firewall, I could use any port numbers to listen.
One tip that nobody has mentioned yet is to remember to host the app on the LAN-accessible address 0.0.0.0 instead of the default localhost. Firewalls on Mac and Linux are less strict about this address compared to the default localhost address (127.0.0.1).
For example,
gatsby develop --host 0.0.0.0
yarn start --host 0.0.0.0
npm start --host 0.0.0.0
You can then access the address to connect to by entering ifconfig or ipconfig in the terminal. Then try one of the IP addresses on the left that does not end in .255 or .0
Faced similar issue with my Angular Node Server(v6.10.3) which set up in WIndows 10.
http://localhost:4201 worked fine in localhost. But http://{ipaddress}:4201 not working in other machines in local network.
For this I updated the ng serve like this
//Older ng serve in windows command Prompt
ng serve --host localhost --port 4201
//Updated ng serve
//ng serve --host {ipaddress} --port {portno}
ng serve --host 192.168.1.104 --port 4201
After doing this modification able to access my application in other machines in network bt calling this url
http://192.168.1.104:4201
//http://{ipaddress}:4201
The port is probably blocked by your local firewall or router. Hard to tell without details.
But there is a simple solution for which you don't have to mess with firewall rules, run node as a privileded process to serve on port 80, etc...
Check out Localtunnel. Its a great Ruby script/service, which allows you to make any local port available on the internet within seconds. It's certainly not useful for a production setup, but to try out a game with colleagues, it should work just fine!
const express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.listen(Port Number, "Your IP Address");
// e.g.
app.listen(3000, "192.183.190.3");
You can get your IP Address by typing ipconfig in cmd if your Windows user else you can use ifconfig.
After trying many solution and lot of research I did to the following to make sure my localhost is accessible from other machine in same network. I didn't start my server with IPAddress as parameter to listen method as suggested by others in this question. I did the following to make sure my local node js server is accessible from other machine on same local network. My node server is running in Windows 10 machine.
Open "Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security"
Select "Inbound Rules" in the left pane.
In the list of available rules, "Node.js Server-side Javascript" has "Block the connection" radio checked. Change this to "Allow the connection".
Please see the attached screenshot:
After these changes, I am able to access my localhost using http://IPAddress:Port/
Thanks.
And Don't Forget To Change in Index.html Following Code :
<script src="http://192.168.1.4:8000/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
var socket = io.connect('http://192.168.1.4:8000');
Good luck!
This worked for me and I think this is the most basic solution which involves the least setup possible:
With your PC and other device connected to the same network , open cmd from your PC which you plan to set up as a server, and hit ipconfig to get your ip address.
Note this ip address. It should be something like "192.168.1.2" which is the value to the right of IPv4 Address field as shown in below format:
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : ffff::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffad%14
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Start your node server like this : npm start <IP obtained in step 1:3000> e.g. npm start 192.168.1.2:3000
Open browser of your other device and hit the url: <your_ip:3000> i.e. 192.168.1.2:3000 and you will see your website.
put this codes in your server.js :
app.set('port', (80))
app.listen(app.get('port'), () => {
console.log('Node app is running on port', app.get('port'))
})
after that if you can't access app on network disable firewall like this :
ngrok allows you to expose a port on the internet with custom forwarding refs:
$ npx ngrok http 8000
First, check your ipv4 address. In my case my ipv4 address is 192.168.44.112. If you don't know your ipv4 address, run this command on cmd.
ipconfig
Follow this code...
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const port = process.env.port || 8000
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send("Hello Network!")
});
app.listen(port, '192.168.77.112', ()=>{
console.log(`Listening port on ${port}`)
});
In Ubuntu you can fix this by allowing a specific port or port range:
sudo ufw allow PORT-NUMBER/tcp
example:
sudo ufw allow 3000/tcp
or a range:
sudo ufw allow 3000:3001/tcp
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
}).listen(80, '127.0.0.1');
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:80/');
By default node will run on every IP address exposed by the host on which it runs. You don't need to do anything special. You already knew the server runs on a particular port. You can prove this, by using that IP address on a browser on that machine:
http://my-ip-address:port
If that didn't work, you might have your IP address wrong.
I had this problem. The solution was to allow node.js through the server's firewall.
I was using nodejs + nano + couchdb for my application successfully up until today. For some reason all of a sudden I'm getting ECONNREFUSED when I try to run my application. If I try to query the database using the web browser or using a different application (java application) it works fine. I'm uncertain why just in this scenario it stopped working. I've been researching for the past 2 days and can't find any help. I believe this might have something to do with too many open connections, but that's a little bit out of my realm of knowledge. Can anyone provide me with any insight on debugging this issue or any direction I could go in? I should mention this couchdb lives on iriscouch
Add more information about stack that you're using. But basically it's server machine doesn't want to allow connecting. Also try run your app with DEBUG=*, nano will log via console.log almost everything.
E.g. change in package.json start command to node changetoyourapp.js DEBUG=*
I faced yesterday same issue with nodejitsu/iriscouch. Issue disappeared after some restarts.
Check the version of your node vs the expected node version of nano. It is possible that nano does not work with node > 16.
This is down to Node v18 now preferring an IPv6 address over and IPv4 address if two exist for the same hostname.
i.e. if your /etc/hosts contains entries like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
Node v16 will say that "localhost" resolves to 127.0.0.1 where Node v18 will say "localhost" resolves to ::1, the IPv6 equivalent. As CouchDB doesn't listen on an IPv6 port by default, then a connection to ::1 will be refused.
Solutions:
Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in your URLs.
Use a domain name that resolves unambiguously to an IPv4 address e.g. 127.0.0.1 my.pretend.host in your /etc/hosts file.
Revert to Nodev16 which preferred IPv4 addresses in its dns lookup.
Make CouchDB bind to an IPv6 address by changing bind_address = ::1 in couchdb.ini. You can then do curl 'http://USER:PASS#[::1]:5984/.
See
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-nano/issues/313#issuecomment-1321760360
I have a VPS with node.js installed, I already uploaded a basic example to test it on the server, so I tried doing this:
I access by SSH, navigate to my project folder and run
node app.js
I get this message
Express server listening on port 8080
I thought i could see my app here
example.com:8080 or server.example:8080... but nothing. Then I tried with the info from os.networkInterfaces(); and os.host(); and still nothing happen
could you help me out? as you can see I am a total noob on node.js. What I'm doing wrong? or what should I do before running my app? Something related to DNS's? i have no idea
How do you ssh to your host? with ip or name? Is it something like:
ssh root#example.com
if so then at least you know your DNS is ok.
Once on the server do a
netstat -a
if you find *:8080 then your server is listening in the default ip. If you see something like 12.23.45.67:8080 then this number is the ip your server is listening.
ifconfig
will give you the servers ip. This should be the same as the ip of example.com. If not then maybe there is some router/firewall in front of your server and you have to configure that to allow port 8080 to reach your server.
if someone ever has the same problem this is how i solved on CentOS:
Open this file
/ Etc / csf / csf.conf
Add the required port
Allow incoming TCP ports
TCP_IN = "20,21,22,25,53,80,110,143,443,465,587,993,995,26"
Allow outgoing TCP ports
TCP_OUT = "20,21,22,25,37,43,53,80,110,113,443,587,873"
Restart
# # Csf-r
I have installed Node.js with Socket.io on a CentOS server which is running Apache on port 80.
I created a socket test, which justs listens on port 8080.
If I curl the address localhost:8080 from within the server's shell, I get the Socket.io-welcome message. If I have a line like this:
<script src="http://localhost:8080/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
Then the browser cannot find the file.
A "solution" was to proxy requests to /nodejs/ to http://localhost:8080/, but this solution did not work for very long.
Is it possible to run the Node.js server when we have Apache installed? Which settings must be changed in order for us to access the url: http://server.com:8080 ? It seems the Node.js only accepts connections from localhost.
Problem is most probably in your node.js program.
It should listen on 0.0.0.0 and not 127.0.0.1 which is local only.
So where you've got something like:
.listen(8080, '127.0.0.1'); // '127.0.0.1' or 'localhost'
You should change it to:
.listen(8080); // or 0.0.0.0
Apache will only interfere if it also uses port 8080 but you should get an error when starting your node app if this is the case.
Also, if you connect to http://localhost in your browser, it will only work if the server is on the same local machine as the browser. Fine for testing I guess.
You'll have to connect to a domain or ip address if you have a hosted server else no browser will find it.
Update:
Your socket.io code also needs to connect correctly:
var socket = io.connect('http://correct.server.com:8080'); // not localhost
and your browser needs to load the javascript file from the correct place:
<script src="http://correct.server.com/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script> // not localhost
This might help with firewall / load balancer issues:
https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/wiki/Socket.IO-and-firewall-software