Troubles with express and socket.io sessions - node.js

Question

I seem to not be able to share sessions between express and socket io . It works when on localhost but not when on my server. There is something I am missing.
The data I store in socket.handshake.session ('age' here) is not saved on the express side.
My app.js goes like this:
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var session = require('express-session');
var app = express();
app.use(cookieParser()); // read cookies (needed for auth)
var sessionMiddleware = session({
secret: 'keyboard cat',
resave: true,
name: 'sessionId',
saveUninitialized: true,
cookie: { maxAge: 60000 },
// store: new redisStore({ host: 'localhost', port: 6379, client: redisClient, ttl: 86400 }),
});
app.use(sessionMiddleware);
app.set("sessionMW", sessionMiddleware);
module.exports = app;
My bin\www goes like this:
var app = require('../app');
var debug = require('debug')('testserver:server');
var http = require('http');
var sharedsession = require("express-socket.io-session");
var port = normalizePort(process.env.PORT || '3000');
app.set('port', port);
var server = http.createServer(app);
var io = require('socket.io').listen(server);
var session = app.get("sessionMW")
io.use(sharedsession(session, {autosave:true}));
server.listen(port);
I then have a serverEvent.js that goes like this:
var serverEvents = module.exports = function(io){
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
...
...
...
socket.on('updateAgeSession', function (message) {
socket.handshake.session.age = "18";
socket.handshake.session.save();
console.log(socket.handshake.session);
})
})
}
And finaly I have this index.js for my routes:
module.exports = function (app, passport) {
// show the home page (will also have our login links)
app.get('/', function (req, res, next) {
res.cookie('mycookies', 'express');
res.cookie('age', req.session.age);
cookie1= req.cookies;
console.log(req.session);
console.log(req.sessionID);
console.log(req.sessionStore.sessions);
if (req.session.views) {
req.session.views++;
console.log(req.session.views);
} else {
req.session.views = 1
console.log(req.session.views);
}
if(req.session.age){
console.log("OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO");
} else {
console.log("XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX");
}
res.render('homePage'); // ejs template
});
}
So my problem is that after I enter that Im over 18 when I refresh the page , the req.session.age will be undefined, but only when my code runs on server, it does work on localhost. I dont get it.
Please help

Answer 1

For anyone that might have got the same problem I had, here is the solution :
I also have a client side code that goes like this :
var socket = io.connect("http://ip:3000");
var globalVar = [];
// Sent on connection/searchValidatedFromClient by server
socket.on("loadHomePageFromServer", function(message) {
...}
Problem was io.connect("http://ip:3000");.
By changing it to io.connect("http://namesite.com"); or io.connect("http://ip:80");, it works!