Question

I’m making a web-app that makes use of nodejs, mongodb, socket.io, express and mongoose.

I can start my server and correctly get the wanted html file in my browser when browsing to my localhost.
The problem I have is getting my socket.io to work.
On my server side everything works fine : I get ” info – socket.io started ” in my terminal.

But when surfing to my browser I get this in my browser console

    Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) 
    Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined 

This is how i connect to socket.io.js

    <script src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

and my map structure looks like this:

 map
  -app.js
  -public
  --index.html

  -node_modules
  --socket.io
  --mongodb
  --express
  --jade
  --mongoose

Does anyone knows what the mistake is I’ve made?

(it’s actually the same problem as here: Node.js socket.io.js not found or io not defined )

Thanks in advance!

EDIT:
My code on the server side is this:

    var app= require('express').createServer();
    var io = require('socket.io').listen(app);
    var mongoose = require('mongoose');
    var db = mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/db');

    app.listen(3030);
    console.log("server started");

    app.get('/',function(req,res){
res.sendfile(__dirname + '/public/index.html');
    });


    io.sockets.on('connection',function(socket){    
    console.log("connection made");
    });

The first log, gets logged in the terminal (“server started”), but the second one (“connection made”) doesn’t get logged. So the connection isn’t made.
I thought that was because of the wrong “set up” in my client side.

Answer 1

Check out the express migration guide 2->3
https://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki/Migrating-from-2.x-to-3.x
Something like this should work

 var express = require('express');
 var app = express();
 var http = require('http');
 var server = http.createServer(app);
 var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);
 var mongoose = require('mongoose');
 var db = mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/db');

 server.listen(3030);
 console.log("server started");

 app.get('/',function(req,res){
     res.sendfile(__dirname + '/public/index.html');
 });


 io.sockets.on('connection',function(socket){    
    console.log("connection made");
 });