Socket.io with apache

I dont have much experience neither in Node.js not in socket.io, thus maybe I will ask silly questions and sorry for that first of all.

I am trying to do following:

  1. Installed node on ubuntu where I have apache also installed.

  2. Created virtual host in apache and set it as proxy to node. My conf file looks like:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin giorgi@omedia.ge
    ServerName node.aidemo.info
    ServerAlias www.node.aidemo.info

    ProxyRequests off
    <Proxy *>
       Order deny,allow
       Allow from all
    </Proxy>

    <Location />
       ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080
       ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080
    </Location>

</VirtualHost>

  3. Have created simple js file for server (first server example in socket.io website) and started server from cli with command: node server.js. It starts perfectly and listens to 8080

  4. Created another virtualhost where I put clientside index.html (also from first example in socket.io). At first I had problem (and actually main problem is this), browser couldn't resolve path /socket.io/socket.io.js. Then I went to the url (http://localhost:8080/socket.io/socket.io.js) from lynx locally from terminal, downloaded that js and put locally with virtualhost near index.html. After this, browser could resolve that request, but I have error when socket.io.js itself is trying to get the url: 

    http://localhost:8080/socket.io/1/?t=1347623348836

Do you have any ideas how can I solve this problem? My main goal is to have web url from which I can access my node server and talk with it with socket.io - for example to create very simple chat.

I hope I was clear. Thank you everyone who will try to help.

I am using express + socket.io and they are listening on port 3001. And I want http://example.com/folder to redirect to my Express app listening on port 3001 (i.e, to http://localhost:3001, server-side).

I have done the following.

The .html file has this:

<script src='/folder/socket.io/socket.io.js'> </script>  
<script>  
var socket = io.connect('http://example.com', {resource: 'folder/socket.io'});  
...  
</script>

And my apache2 conf looks like this:

ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /folder/ http://localhost:3001/
ProxyPassReverse /folder/ http://localhost:3001/

<Proxy *>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Proxy>

<Location /folder/>
    allow from all
</Location>

Note that it requires the module proxy_http to be enabled. To enable it, run this command:

sudo a2enmod proxy_http; service apache2 restart

http://localhost:8080 is obviously not going to be available to anything outside of your server.

The client-side javascript's io.connect() should be connecting to http://node.aidemo.info so that apache can send that off to Node.

http://node.aidemo.info:8080 might also work if you've opened up port 8080.