Get a VPS that offers 2 or more IP addresses.
From the WHM cPanel, find the menu item Service Configuration
, select Apache Configuration
and then click on Reserved IPs Editor
.
Tick the IP address you DON'T WANT Apache to listen to, and write it down so you can use it in the next step. Click Save
.
Install Node.js, and create a server like this:
var http = require('http');
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
res.writeHead(200);
res.end('Hello, world!');
});
server.listen(80, '111.111.111.111');
Replacing 111.111.111.111
with the IP address you previously reserved from the WHM cPanel.
Stop wasting your time and never listen to those telling you to use mod_rewrite
to proxy Node.js again.
The disadvantage to use proxyPass is that you can't use host property to do something related with subdomains, base uri namespace, etc. This will be localhost:{port}