As I understood it, from http://socket.io/#how-to-use, node.js automatically serves the socket.io file on the server.
I have installed socket.io with npm install socket.io and I can see that it resides in node_modules one level above the server root.
server.js:
var static = require('./plugins/node-static');
var socketIO = require('socket.io');
var clientFiles = new static.Server('./client');
var http = require('http');
httpServer = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
request.addListener('end', function () {
clientFiles.serve(request, response);
});
}).listen(8253);
var webSocket = socketIO.listen(httpServer);
webSocket.on('connection', function(client) { .....
index.html:
<html>
<head>
<title>Chat</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var webSocket = new io.Socket('localhost', { port: 8253 });
webSocket.connect(); .......
Starting the server works fine, but when opening index.html, I receive the following error:
GET http://localhost:8253/socket.io/socket.io.js 404 (Not Found)
Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined :8253/:25
Ideas?
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