Question

I’m trying to get connect and socket.io to work together nicely and simply. I have the following code on server side:

var connect = require('connect'),
    io = require('socket.io');

var app = connect().use(connect.logger('dev'));
var sio = io.listen(app);

app.listen(8000);

when I open http://localhost:8000/socket.io/socket.io.js I get the error:

Cannot GET /socket.io/socket.io.js

And Socket.IO doesn’t work, I’m trying copy file and load from another location, but socket.io requests do not reach the server

Answer 1

SOLUTION

if anyone comes to this issue, you need to wrap the connect/express app in a node http.Server. The app.listen() method is a convenience method for this and returns the server:

var io = require('socket.io');
var app = connect();
var server = app.listen(3000);
io.listen(server);

or the following is equivalent:

var io = require('socket.io');
var http = require('http');
var app = connect();
var server = http.createServer(app);
server.listen(3000);
io.listen(server);