Apache websocket setup
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Intro
The need was to make sure that our apache was able to communicate with our Sente1
Apache config
To the apacheconfig, under the :443 section (https)
# Trying websockets here, c/o
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} =websocket [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) ws://127.0.0.1:8080/$1 [P,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} !=websocket [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8080/$1 [P,L]
# END websockets
Server shell, enabling the apache modules
/sudo:root@devflats:/ $> a2enmod proxy_wstunnel
# Considering dependency proxy for proxy_wstunnel:
# Module proxy already enabled
# Enabling module proxy_wstunnel.
# To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
# systemctl restart apache2!
/sudo:root@devflats:/ $> systemctl restart apache2
Resources
Footnotes
1 Sente is the premier Web Socket library for Clojure[script]. https://github.com/ptaoussanis/sente
