Htaccess file redirect

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Hi folks,
would anyone know how to create a hatches redirect for example:

domain: subdaom.xyz.com
redirect to: 0.0.0.0:8050 (where nodeJS site is)
however I still need it to show the domain name and force ssl

Any help would be appreciated.

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Let me see if I got this straight:

  1. You have a NodeJS webserver running on 0.0.0.0:8050
  2. You have a domain subdaom.xyz.com
  3. You want visitors to access subdaom.xyz.com, and they’ll see the contents of 0.0.0.0:8050 (the address bar shows subdaom.xyz.com)

This is called reverse proxying, where your front-facing webserver (e.g.: Apache or nginx) will proxy the incoming requests on port 80/443 to 8050

You need to provide further information about your setup, if you’re using a control panel (e.g.: cPanel or Plesk), what webserver does it use (e.g.: Apache, nginx or LiteSpeed)…

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yeah I know its called a reversed proxy, but I want to see if there is a way of doing it through htaccess before I start messing around with Nginx.

Server is Cpanel & apache.

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Softaculous used to do some sort of trickery to run Ghost (NodeJS) blogs - I believe they’ve used .htaccess

Take a look here, seems like mod_proxy could do the job

Edit: If your host has CloudLinux, you could ask them to enable NodeJS support