How can I set up Web Sockets on AWS and log incoming messages to s3 (elastic beanstalk project) mysql db

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I have an existing LAMP project on AWS (Elastic-beanstalk). I now what to set up web sockets on AWS too. According to AWS documentation, the way to do that is via AWS API Gateway. I don't know how this all works but there's documentation I found for setting up WebSockets.

Does the Gateway API connect to another service? If so, what service is this? What am I missing?

I mostly just want to make a Web Socket service to look incoming messages to the MySQL database on my Elastic-beanstalk project. I am totally confused about how to do this. Can anyone advise me about what steps I need to take?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 17 '19 at 01:59

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Just because api gateway supports web sockets, doesn't mean you need to use it. ALBs do as well and are a more exact fit for elastic beanstalk.

Does an Application Load Balancer support WebSockets?

answered Nov 17 '19 at 01:59

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Thanks for this. I see here how this was set up in node.js. How do you do it in PHP / LAMP? – ControlAltDel Nov 17 '19 at 03:24

ControlAltDel · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-19T03:42:27.387

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AWS doesn't support PHP (Ratchet) Web Sockets

edited Dec 19 '19 at 03:42

answered Nov 17 '19 at 16:40

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How can I set up Web Sockets on AWS and log incoming messages to s3 (elastic beanstalk project) mysql db

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