Extend nginx on elastic beanstalk with websockets - node.js

Question

I want to set up an elastic beanstalk app to work with HTTP and Websockets. I can get the HTTP working on port 8081, but I can't access my websocket server because I get a 301 redirect error with nginx. I can tell my websocket server is running, does anyone know why I can't access it? Here is my proxy.config file:
upstream nodejs {
server 127.0.0.1:8081;
keepalive 256;
}
upstream wsserver {
server 127.0.0.1:3000;
keepalive 256;
}
server {
listen 8080;
if ($time_iso8601 ~ "^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2})") {
set $year $1;
set $month $2;
set $day $3;
set $hour $4;
}
access_log /var/log/nginx/healthd/application.log.$year-$month-$day-$hour healthd;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
# prevents 502 bad gateway error
large_client_header_buffers 8 32k;
location /ws/ {
# prevents 502 bad gateway error
proxy_buffers 8 32k;
proxy_buffer_size 64k;
proxy_pass http://wsserver;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://nodejs;
proxy_set_header Connection "";
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
gzip on;
gzip_comp_level 4;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
}