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So I am having three node apps on the same server and they are all started to different localhost's ports. With that I am trying to do kind of a router that make a proxy for every apps and then put this proxy in a virtual host. Currently I am testing this on my local network but it will be on a "real" server in the future.

Just to make an exemple, my router is on 0.0.0.0:3000 and one of my apps is on 0.0.0.0:3001. So here is how it looks like if I try to make a proxy to the app on the router :

app.use('/*', proxy({ target: 'http://0.0.0.0:3001', changeOrigin: true }));

It works when I am going on http://localhost:3000. But it is not in a virtual host, so here it is :

app.use('/*', 
  vhost('test.*', proxy({ target: 'http://0.0.0.0:3001', changeOrigin: true }))
);

It still works but only on http://test.localhost:3000.

If I try to access it via my IP (mydomain.com is mapped to my IP in my hosts file, you can see it down bellow) : http://test.mydomain.com express return me Cannot GET /. And even on mydomain.com it works well without the virtual host.

Here is my hosts file (I am not sure if it is safe to share this IP so I am masking a part of it) :

192.168.*.*:3000 mydomain.com

Packages I use : http-proxy-middleware, vhost, express.

My final question is : how could I make this virtual host works on another IP / domain than localhost ?

UPDATE :

I don't know if this information can be usefull, but even if I put www.google.com in my proxy with the virtual host, it doesn't works.

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I give up the idea of doing it with node, it was creating too much problems. I ended up with an nginx reverse proxy. After some research it seems like a reverse proxy was what I wanted to do, and it worked, so good fit.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_inverse

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