Is it possible to create multiple Node.js HTTP servers, and access them via a request URL (not a subdomain)?

Question

Let's say I had a few separate HTTP servers made in node, each with a unique ID attached to them. Is there any way to access them with request URLs based on that id? For example:

Server ifjw48n: accessible via http://example.com/ifjw48n

Server ty58u7e: accessible via http://example.com/ty58u7e

Answer 1

It appears you can do this with nginx used as a routing proxy. Similar question in a different stackexchange forum answered here: Routing to various node.js servers on same machine .

From that answer, here's a sample config that does routing based on the URL:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location /foo {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:9000;
    }

    location /bar {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:9001;
    }

    location /baz {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:9002;
    }
}