Question

I’ve been trying for hours and have read what this site and the internet have to offer. I just can’t quite seem to get Socket.IO to work properly here. I know nginx by default can’t handle Socket.IO however, HAproxy can. I want nginx to serve the Node apps through unix sockets and that works great. Each have a sub directory location set by nginx, however, now I need Socket.IO for the last app and I’m at a loss of configuring at this point.

I have the latest socket.io, HAproxy 1.4.8 and nginx 1.2.1. Running ubuntu.

So reiterating, I need to get socket.io working though nginx to a node app in a subdirectory, ex: localhost/app/.

Diagram:
WEB => HAproxy => Nginx => {/app1 app1, /app2 app2, /app3 app3}

Let me now if I can offer anything else!

Answer 1

There is no reason to get “get socket.io working though nginx”. Instead you just route HAProxy directly to Socket.IO (without Nginx in the middle).

I recommend you checkout the following links:

• https://gist.github.com/1014904
• http://blog.mixu.net/2011/08/13/nginx-websockets-ssl-and-socket-io-deployment/