node.js + socket.io + express.js: No connection

Alright guys, I finally have it up and running.

What I did was to migrate my reverse proxy from Apache to a node.js/node-http-proxy-solution. I'm not sure whether this is actually mandatory - but after re-configuring Apache 2.2.2 and even compiling Apache 2.4.7 didn't help, I figured it could be worth a shot. I also switched to a subdomain rather a subdir, as subdirs seems to cause problems in some cases as well. Again, dunno whether this was just a precaution or if this is actually necessary.

What I'm pretty sure is of relevance, however, is how to load the socket.io.js. Since my reverse proxy already forwards requests to the correct (internal) IP, I have to access both socket.io.js as well as the actual Websocket via the TLD w/o ports or ws://.

Long story short, here's the relevant code:

Server

var express = require('express');var app = express();var server = app.listen(3000);var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/'));console.log('Express server started on port %s', app);io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {  socket.emit('news', { hello: 'world' });  socket.on('my other event', function (data) {    console.log(data);  });});

Client

<script src="http://mysubdomain.mydomain.com/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script><script>    var socket = io.connect('http://mysubdomain.mydomain.com');    // , {secure: true}    socket.on('news', function(data) {        console.log(data);    });</script>

Proxy

var fs = require('fs'), httpProxy = require('http-proxy');// This will crash as soon as Apache isn't running or the port isn't binded elsewhere// TODO: fixvar proxyTable = {    'mydomain.com/subdir' : '127.0.0.1:3000',    'mysubdomain.mydomain.com' : '127.0.0.1:3000'};var httpOptions = {    hostnameOnly : false,    router : proxyTable};var httpsOptions = {    hostnameOnly : false,    router : proxyTable,    https : {        key : fs.readFileSync('/path/key', 'utf8'),        cert : fs.readFileSync('/path/cert', 'utf8')    }};httpProxy.createServer(httpOptions).listen(80); httpProxy.createServer(httpsOptions).listen(443);

Last but not least, for anyone stumbling upon this via google, versions used:

$ npm list --depth=0myapp@0.0.0 /path/app├── express@3.4.7└── socket.io@0.9.16$ npm list --depth=0/path/proxy└── http-proxy@0.10.4

Please follow examples here: http://socket.io/#how-to-use

var express = require('express');var app = express();var http = require('http');var server = http.createServer(app);var socket = require('socket.io');var io = socket.listen(server);app.listen(3000);

Additionally this is wrong:

io.connect('https://localhost:3000');

It should be ws://localhost:3000/