Trouble running socket.io in ports other than 80

Question

I'm running express.js on port 80, so socket.io has to go on other port. The problem is that, then, I have to load socket.io on the client with:

<script src="http://my_domain:8080/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>

Which is horrible because I have to change my_domain everytime I switch from local machine to host.

Answer 1

I'm running express.js on port 80, so socket.io has to go on other port.

Wrong.

You can run Socket.io and Express on the same port; just pass same same http.Server instance to both of them.