Running both PHP and Node.js on Nginx(php extension file for PHP, html extension for node)

Question

Good day, i want handle php file and html on same server, i want that html files handle node on port 8080, and php files handle php5 service. I wrote nginx config like this:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;

    root /home/examle/public_html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name www.examle.com examle.com;

    location ~ \.html$ {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_buffering off;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    error_page 404 /404.html;
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

but when html pages opened nodejs didn't handle node javascript which contains in html page. How can i handle both type of files php and html on same server?

Answer 1

It won't work this way.

The thing is: when you use nginx + php , nginx doesn't really run php filename.php when you hit localhost/filename.php . There is php-fpm and nginx sends request to it. Then, php-fpm runs actual script, creating proper $_SERVER , $_GET , etc.

In node case, you don't have any node-fpm service. Nginx won't run node filename.html . You need to set up the real node process at 8080 port that serves http connections, because all nginx does is it "passes" an actual http connection to the http://localhost:8080 , as you specified.

Learn how to get node http server working.

PS Clue: look at your nginx logs more often ( /var/log/nginx/* at Ubuntu/Debian). :)