How to set-up webhook endpoint so that it can accept https requests?-CodePudding

I am trying to set-up a Messenger Webhook Endpoint. The Webhook is written with node.js. The Endpoint is configured to listen for requests on its default port or Port 1337 if there is no default.

app.listen(process.env.PORT || 1337)

The issue is that my server cannot validate the Callback URL https://example.com/webhook request coming from Messenger. Here is the screenshot:

How do I re-direct the requests coming over https to the webhook endpoint.

(I am using Apache2 as my HTTP server running on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)

I am following this documentation for my setup: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/getting-started/webhook-setup/

CodePudding user response：

This problem can be resolved using SSL Termination with Apache. You basically have it act as a reverse proxy that forwards anything on https://example.com/webhook to http://localhost:1337/webhook.

So there's two parts to this. The NodeJS will listen on localhost:1337 and the Apache translating from public HTTPS and proxying that to NodeJS.

This tutorial by DigitalOcean is very helpful for setting up Webhooks in a Apache Server: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-apache-as-a-reverse-proxy-with-mod_proxy-on-ubuntu-16-04

Also, this ServerFault question helped with configuring VirtualHosts file.