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JockelzF
JockelzF

Reputation: 423

Can't get socket.io to work on server, while running fine locally

This code is running fine with the node.js server running locally:

Server:

var client = require('socket.io').listen(3001).sockets;

Client HTML:

<script src="http://localhost:3001/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

Client Javascript:

var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:3001');

Then I moved the server.js to my ubuntu server which has node and socket io installed, using the same code, and started it without error.

Clientside I changed the local html/javascript file from localhost:3001 to ServerIP:3001 and it just doesn't work anymore. When I check firebug, I can see it never finishes trying to GET http://ServerIP:3001/socket.io/socket.io.js. It does not fail, just never finishes.

What did I do wrong? Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 226

Answers (1)

Aaron Ullal
Aaron Ullal

Reputation: 5235

This is most likely a firewall issue. Allow connections on port 3001 using the following (if you use iptables)

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --destination-port 3001 -J ACCEPT

Than try again

Upvotes: 2

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