nginx as webserver incl. socket.io and node.js / ws:// 400 Bad Request

  1. Nginx(nginx version: nginx/1.4.6) Change:-

    server {
            listen   80;
            server_name 255717070.com;
            root /var/www/stack/25571070;
            index  index.html index.htm;
    
            location / {
            }
    
            location ^~ /socket {
               rewrite  ^/socket/(.*)  /$1 break; #used to send request to base url
               proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
               proxy_redirect off;
               proxy_pass_request_headers on;
               proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
               proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
               proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;
               proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
               proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
               proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
               proxy_http_version 1.1;
               proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
               proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
               proxy_set_header Host $host;
    
            }
    
    }
    

Note: You need to change location ~ ^/socket to location ^~ /socket

Node Changes:

  1. app.js:

    app.enable('trust proxy');
    app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
    var server = app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
         debug('Express server listening on port ' + server.address().port);
    });
    
    
    var sockets = require('socket.io')({
      'transports': ['websocket', 'flashsocket','htmlfile','xhr-polling','jsonp-polling']
    });
    
    var io = sockets.listen(server,{ resource: '/socket.io/','sync disconnect on unload':true });
    
    io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {  
      setInterval(function() {socket.emit('news', { hello: 'hello world' })}, 1000);
    });
    
  2. index.ejs:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
      <head>
        <title><%= title %></title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackoverflow.com/socket/stylesheets/style.css" />
      </head>
      <body>
        <h1><%= title %></h1>
        <p>Welcome to <%= title %></p>
        <div id="divID">
    
        </div>
        <script src="http://www.25571070.com/socket/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
            <script>
                var socket = io.connect('ws://25571070.com');
                //var socket = io.connect('http://www.25571070.com');
                var i = 0;
                socket.on('news', function(data) {
                    var div = document.getElementById('divID');
                    i = i + 1;
                    div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML + '<p>'+ data.hello+'('+i+')'+'</p>';
                    console.log(data);
                });
            </script>
      </body>
    </html>
    

package.json:

{
  "name": "25571070",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node ./bin/www"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "~1.6.6",
    "cookie-parser": "~1.3.2",
    "debug": "~1.0.4",
    "ejs": "~0.8.5",
    "express": "~4.8.6",
    "moment": "^2.8.2",
    "morgan": "^1.2.3",
    "serve-favicon": "^2.0.1",
    "socket.io": "^1.0.6",
    "stylus": "0.42.3"
  }
}

Firefox Response:

Firefox websocket response

Chrome Response:

Chrome Websocket Response

FYI. I have used below version:

  • “node”: “v0.10.31”
  • “ejs”: “~0.8.5”
  • “express”: “~4.8.6”,
  • “socket.io”: “^1.0.6”
  • “nginx”: “1.4.6”

For Quick Start With node.js go to node.js-socket.io-express-ngnix-starter

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