socket.io.js not found

javascript node.js express socket.io
dan-lee picture dan-lee · Apr 17, 2012 · Viewed 37.7k times · Source

For some reason my node server cannot serve the route /socket.io/socket.io.js, I always get a 404 error.
I tried compiling different node versions (current is 0.6.13 which also runs on server, where it actually works).
From the app.js I get info: socket.io started and no error when trying to call the socket.io.js.

I try it from localhost and port 8000 and I use the express framework

This is the code from app.js:

var express = require('express')
  , app = require('express').createServer()
  , io = require('socket.io').listen(app, { log: true });

app.listen(8000);

app.configure(function() {
    app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
    app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true }));
});

io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
   // all other stuff here

Answer

nguyenkha picture nguyenkha · Apr 17, 2012

Please check your Express version. Express recently is updated to 3.0alpha which API was changed. If 3.0 you can change your code to something likes this:

var express = require('express')
  , http = require('http');

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

...

server.listen(8000);

Same issue with connect: https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/issues/500#issuecomment-4620773

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