I'm having trouble connecting to an https NodeJS server hosted on linux. I first created the keyfile (jims-key.pem) and certificate (jims-csr.pem) using the instructions here to make example.key and example.crt.
Then I create the javascript file for the https server:
const https = require('https');
const fs = require('fs');
const options = {
key: fs.readFileSync('ssl_cert/example.key'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('ssl_cert/example.cert')
};
https.createServer(options, (req, res) => {
res.writeHead(200);
res.end('hello world\n');
}).listen(443);
console.log('listening...');
I then run this file with:
node server.js
and it prints out "listening...".
If I disown this process and open a new shell window in my server linux instance, I can connect to the https server it like this:
curl -k https://localhost:443
and I can see the response, "hello world".
It also show the response when I use the instance's public static ip address instead of localhost:
curl -k https://104.xxx.xx.xx:443
However, when I try to connect from my local terminal or a web browser I am unable to connect, and I get a "connection refused" error:
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 10.142.0.2 port 443: Connection refused
How can I set up the HTTPS server do that my clients can connect to it?
The server is a google cloud compute engine instance running this:
Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 (jessie) node v6.10.1 npm v3.10.10
via Jim
