#How negativefour.com is served

negativefour consists of the following services

• www - negativefour.com or www.negativefour.com
• serve - serve.negativefour.com

#www

This is a standard express application using the pug templating engine. This is the frontend that users are expected to interact with.

It is run by a systemd service called negativefour.com and has the following configuration:

[Unit]
Description=The negativefour website

[Service]
User=admin
Group=admin
WorkingDirectory=/home/admin/negativefour/www
ExecStart=npm start
Restart=always
RestartSec=1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

www runs on port 2999. In order to deliver traffic to it we use apache2 as a reverse proxy via the following configuration in /etc/apache2/sites-avaliable/negativefour.com.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	     ServerAdmin zekemedley@gmail.com
	     ProxyPreserveHost On
	     ProxyRequests Off
	     ServerName www.negativefour.com
	     ServerAlias negativefour.com
	     ProxyPass / http://localhost:2999/
	     ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:2999/
</VirtualHost>

In addition to the apache2 reverse proxy we also proxy traffic to this endpoint through Cloudflare hence the lack of a SSL config.

#serve

This is an api with no frontend which processes requests to deploy and undeploy webpages. Webpages deployed by this endpoint are deployed to <NAME>.negativefour.app.

The systemd and apache configs for this service are as follows:

/etc/systemd/system/serve.negativefour.com.service

[Unit]
Description=The negativefour deployment managment endpoint

[Service]
User=root
Group=root
WorkingDirectory=/home/admin/negativefour/serve
ExecStart=node app.js
Restart=always
RestartSec=1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

/etc/apache2/sites-available/serve.negativefour.com.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	     ServerAdmin zekemedley@gmail.com
	     ProxyPreserveHost On
	     ProxyRequests Off
	     ServerName serve.negativefour.com
	     ProxyPass / http://localhost:2998/
	     ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:2998/
</VirtualHost>