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:

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

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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:

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

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The contents of mynodeapp.conf file is as follows:

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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.