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Restify with optional HTTPS redirect
//This allows you to specify a certificate and a key and will create a server that just handles redirects, if you want it.
/*Using let's encrypt to create a free certificate:
cd /root/
git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt
cd letsencrypt
./letsencrypt-auto certonly --webroot -w /my/web/root --email my@email.com -d myDomain.com
//add ssl:certificate location of 'fullchain.pem' and ssl:key location of 'privkey.pem'
*/
var nconf = require('nconf');
nconf.argv().env()
.file('package',{ file: './package.json' })
.file('common',{ file: '../secrets/common.json' })
.defaults({
port: 443
,portRedirect: 80
,webURL: 'myDomain.com'
});
//Start up the restify API server
var restify = require('restify');
//Connect the logging to the API server
var restifyOptions={
name: 'BestFoneAPI'
//,log: logger optional Bunyan logger instance
};
//check if SSL is set up. This will crash if enabled but not properly configured.
var fs=require('fs');
if(nconf.get('ssl:certificate')) {
restifyOptions.certificate = fs.readFileSync(nconf.get('ssl:certificate'));
restifyOptions.key = fs.readFileSync(nconfconf.get('ssl:key'));
}
var server = restify.createServer(restifyOptions);
server.listen(Common.conf.get('port'), function() {
console.info('%s listening at %s', server.name, server.url);
});
server.on('error', function(err) {
if (err.errno === 'EADDRINUSE') {
console.fatal('port busy');
process.exit();
}
else console.error(err);
});
if(nconf.get('portRedirect')){
var nonSecure = restify.createServer({name: 'redirectToSSL'});
nonSecure.get(/.*/,function (req, res, next) {
var port = (nconf.get('port')===443) ? '' : ':'+Common.conf.get('port');
res.redirect(301, 'https://' + nconf.get('webURL') + port + req._url.href, next);
});
nonSecure.listen(Common.conf.get('portRedirect'), function() {
logger.info('%s listening at %s', nonSecure.name, nonSecure.url);
});
}//create the redirect server if the port is set
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