I am trying to integrate Socket.io with Angular and I\'m having difficulties making a connection from the client-side to the server. I\'ve looked through other related quest
I had faced same issues, I refined apache2 virtual host entery and got success.
Note: on server I had succesful installed and working on 9001 port without any issue. This guide line for apache2 only no relavence with nginx, this answer for apache2+etherpad lovers.
ServerName pad.tejastank.com
ServerAlias pad.tejastank.com
ServerAdmin snippetbucket@gmail.com
LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule headers_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_deflate.so
ProxyVia On
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost on
ProxyPass http://localhost:9001/ retry=0 timeout=30
ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:9001/
# This is needed to handle the websocket transport through the proxy, since
# etherpad does not use a specific sub-folder, such as /ws/ to handle this kind of traffic.
# Taken from https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/2318#issuecomment-63548542
# Thanks to beaugunderson for the semantics
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} transport=websocket [NC]
RewriteRule /(.*) ws://localhost:9001/socket.io/$1 [P,L]
ProxyPass http://localhost:9001/socket.io retry=0 timeout=30
ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:9001/socket.io
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
Advance tips: Please with help of a2enmod enable all mod of apache2
Restart apache2 than will get effect. But obvious a2ensite to enable site required.