How To Configure nginx for Windows with Lucee?

For the configuring nginx for Windows in the software development process in Lucee/ColdFusion technology, which runs on Windows 10. In this environment, Using Lucee with IIS and Node.js with Express.js and iisnode. To replace IIS with nginx, in that process first downloaded nginx and developed it to C:/nginx. Before configuring nginx, let’s set up Lucee. After installing Lucee it’s running on port 8888. Now, add your website entry in the engine tag as follows:

<!-- ADD NEW HOSTS HERE -->
<!-- VIRTUAL HOST -->
<Host name="mysite.local" appBase="webapps">
<Context path="" docBase="C:/mysite.local" />
</Host>

After that, create a lucee.conf file and add it in C:/nginx/conf folder with the following content.

# Main Lucee proxy handler
location ~ \.(cfm|cfml|cfc|jsp|cfr)(.*)$ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}

#This is for static content
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
    access_log off;
    gzip_static on;
    expires 1w;
    add_header Cache-Control public;
    add_header ETag "";
}

Now, the second process is to configure nginx. Open the file C:/nginx/conf/nginx.conf. Either remove the existing server block or adjust it according to the following:

server {

    listen 80;
    server_name mysite.local;

    root C:/mysite.local;
    index index.html index.htm index.cfm;

    include lucee.conf;

}

Additionally, add another server block for the Node.js application: 

server {

    listen 8081;
    server_name mynodeapp;

    root C:/mynodeapp;
    index index.html index.htm;

    include mynodeapp.conf;

}

The contents of mynodeapp.conf file is as follows:

# Main node proxy handler
location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}

With the required configurations completed, we need to stop the IIS service to acquire port 80. Open Windows services and stop the World Wide Web Publishing Service. It is necessary to set it to manual, so it doesn’t start automatically.