HTTP is working but HTTPS is not working in Nodejs with LAMP stack

Question

I have a working website (https://example.com/ ) with PHP, apache2, MySQL in ubuntu 18

I do want to create API (https://example.com/api) using nodejs and express js. So we have installed node js and started working on making a Nodejs app inside /api ( on same ubuntu machine ). we could easily access our API without https (http://example.com/api) but when we try with https (https://example.com/api) it is not working at all. And the main website is still working fine with https.

I do not understand why https is not working for /api folder but it is working for the whole website. I have tried some other solution but nothing is working for me. Because many solutions are recommending to use Nginx. But I am not familiar with Nginx at all and we have a lot of custom configuration for apache2 and no idea how we could archive that.

Here is the simple code which is written on index.js inside /api folder

app.get('/',function (req, res, next) {

    res.json({
        'success': {
            'message': 'done'
        }
    });
});

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Edit:

I tried with the answer from this question (Enabling HTTPS on express.js) and it is working with https, now I am concern about, is it the right way to implement SSL ? or we should try to get it done with apache config file

Does this answer your question? [Enabling HTTPS on express.js](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11744975/enabling-https-on-express-js) — Cadu De Castro Alves, Mar 05 '20 at 17:53
do we need to add custom code in node js to handle SSL , doesn't it slow down the speed ? as it should be handled by the server (like apache or Nginx ) — Ganesh, Mar 05 '20 at 18:21
the server you're running the PHP code is different from the one you're running NodeJS. — Cadu De Castro Alves, Mar 05 '20 at 19:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '20 at 15:58

HTTPS Should be enabled on your HTTP Server Apache2, not on NodeJS. You should then use proxypass to proxy the /api into your application (that will be standing on some port - block the port from directly communicating from outside the server). Then all clients will use HTTPS to connect to the Apache2 itself, but apache2 will use normal connection with node - therefore you have ssl for outside usage and users, but no excessive overhead for node itself.

Examples: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html

HTTP is working but HTTPS is not working in Nodejs with LAMP stack

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