B4J Question Question about WebApps and Jetty.

[amykonio]

Hi.

Last month I was doing some tests with B4J and webapps. I found it powerful and easy to use. But I do have some questions.
B4J webapps do have a jetty server embedded.

1) If we want to run more than one webapps on the same machine, we have to set each instance to use a different port. I believe there is no other way to achieve that. Am I right?
2) If we want the outside world to reach those applications using strictly port 80 or 443 and without redirection, we should have a separate public ip for each instance and configure NAT to internally translate public ip1 port 80 to internal ip instance 1 port xx1 and public ip2 port 80 to internal ip instance 2 port xx2. Am I right?

If scenario (2) is working, this isn’t a recommended solution, because it may require many public ip’s. Is there another way to solve that “issue”?
Finally, it would be nice if we had a way to somehow deploy a webapp to Jetty and not have it embedded in our app. Don’t know if this could be possible, I understand it’s not supported.

Andreas.

 

[alwaysbusy]

The easiest way around it is is using something like HAProxy before it. Everything arrives at the same ip (or domain) on port 80/443 and HAProxy will then pass it through to e.g. localhost:51042 or localhost:512 depending on its settings. We for example use two aliases https://work.one-two.com which points to localhost:51042 and https://api.one-two.com which points to localhost:55055.

Some HAProxy examples: https://seanmcgary.com/posts/haproxy---route-by-domain-name

Alwaysbusy

 

[amykonio]

The easiest way around it is is using something like HAProxy before it. Everything arrives at the same ip (or domain) on port 80/443 and HAProxy will then pass it through to e.g. localhost:51042 or localhost:512 depending on its settings. We for example use two aliases https://work.one-two.com which points to localhost:51042 and https://api.one-two.com which points to localhost:55055.

Some HAProxy examples: https://seanmcgary.com/posts/haproxy---route-by-domain-name

Alwaysbusy

Thank you for your answer.
I will take a look at HAProxy.

By the way https://api.one-two.com response from jetty is: not found.
And you are doing a great jobs with your frameworks.

Andreas.

 

[hatzisn]

Also nginx can act as a reverse proxy. I have followed some tutorials on YouTube and I find it quiet ease to use. I use it in Raspberry Pi.

 

[alwaysbusy]

By the way https://api.one-two.com response from jetty is: not found.

That is correct. It does not have a ui, just rest api handlers

 

[Pendrush]

I'm using nginx as reverse proxy/cache server in production last 6-7 months with 2M daily opened pages, with 8 CPU, 16GB ram, wIth certbot (for https cert), and I'm thrilled with how fast it works. CPU is constantly below 30%, max ram usage about 4-5GB.