Question How do you enable WebSockets for nodejs and nginx

[MeekSqueek]

Hi Forum members,

I need to enable websockets for a nodejs application. The server is Centos 6 with Nginx and Nodejs4. I've tried to add some directives to the nginx config:

proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_pass http://socket_nodes;

But "proxy_pass" directive is not allowed...

Any pointers would be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Diederik]

Hi,

Did you find a solution for this ?
I'm facing the same problem, I didn't know the "proxy_pass" directive was not allowed,
But even if it were, how do you know where to proxy to ? ie: http://socket_nodes, where is that defined?

 

[MeekSqueek]

Hi,

Did you find a solution for this ?
I'm facing the same problem, I didn't know the "proxy_pass" directive was not allowed,
But even if it were, how do you know where to proxy to ? ie: http://socket_nodes, where is that defined?

I didn't find a solution to this but I did find a work around.

I turned off Proxy Mode (Nginx proxies requests to Apache. Turn off to stop using Apache.) as I had read somewhere that Apache doesn't support sockets. This causes the site to be served by nginx and passenger running within nginx and now it works a treat.

Have a go by turning off Proxy Mode in the Apache & nginx Settings page under the nginx settings area. If it works for you please add a reply to that effect.

Thanks

Simon.