Laravel Reverb on Hetzner Managed server

I recently switched my hosting setup to a Hetzner Managed server, because I was tired of managing my own servers.

And the great thing with a Hetzner Managed server is that I have all the things needed for running a Laravel app like: Redis, supervisord and so on.

The only tricky thing was getting Reverb running with one of my projects. After some back and forth with their support and some own research, I came up with a working solution.

To get there you have to create a subdomain (eg ws.domain.com) and point it to an empty directory on the server.

There you put .htaccess file with the following content in it:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Connection} upgrade$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Upgrade} =websocket [NC]
RewriteRule "^app(.*)$" "ws://localhost:8080/app$1" [P,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/app [NC]
RewriteRule "^app(.*)$" "http://localhost:8080/app$1" [P,L]

For that to work, Hetzner's support team has to activate the proxy_wstunnel module on your server.

After that is done, Reverb works fine.

Thanks to Hetzner for their amazing support!