Accessing socket.io server via Apache served pages

Question

I hope this doesn\'t come across as a terribly silly question, but I\'m learning how to implement a socket.io server for my website to produce real-time applications, but my

Answer 1

Socket.io has multiple transport mechanisms. Some of them don't work if you run Apache as reverse proxy, but some do. Transports that don't work are websocket and flash, but xhr-polling and jsonp-polling should work.

Here's an example on setting the transports configuration option for socket.io:

var io = require("socket.io").listen(server);
io.set("transports", ["xhr-polling", "jsonp-polling"]);

On my Apache I'm using the normal name based virtual hosts and reverse proxy setup and with these transports the socket.io seems to be working.