Unable to get socket.io working on AWS server - node.js

Question

I have a server hosted at Amazon Web Services. I am using socket.io with nodejs on my website. Following is the code:
Client Side-
function bindSocket(){
iosocket = io.connect('http://ec2-54-190-34-106.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080');
iosocket.on('connect', function () {
alert('connected');
iosocket.on('message', function(message) {
//alert(message);
getNotificationData(message);
//document.getElementById("socket_div").innerHTML = message;
});
iosocket.on('disconnect', function() {
//alert('disconnected');
});
});
}
Server side-
var fs = require('fs')
, http = require('http')
, socketio = require('socket.io');
var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-type': 'text/html'});
//res.end(fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/socket_test.html'));
res.end();
}).listen(8080, function() {
console.log('Listening at: http://localhost:8080');
});
socketio.listen(server).on('connection', function (socket) {
console.log('new connection');
socket.on('message', function (msg) {
console.log('Message Received: ', msg);
socket.broadcast.emit('message', msg);
});
});
I get the following error message:
polling-xhr.js:261 GET http://ec2-54-190-34-106.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=LjIkBx8 net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
I have been using the same code(with IPs changed) on digitalocean server. However, I migrated to AWS and I'm unable to get it working.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

I figured it out. The port itself had to enabled from the AWS security group. I added the rule and everything worked.
Hope this helps someone else.

Answer 2

You might not enable the socket ports in the AWS network security group. Also, you have to add the same ports in the ufw (firewall) list.
Open the inbound rules and add the custom port to the list.
Type the following command in the terminal to add the custom port in the ufw list.
sudo ufw allow 5005/tcp
NB: the port (5005 in the example) may vary according to your implementation.