Node server not responding to socket.io requests over HTTPS? - node.js

Question

No idea why this is happening. The socket.io client is trying to connect on the front end:
from https://mywebsite.com:3000, But no response is being received from my node.js server:
var app = require('express')();
var cors = require('cors');
app.use(cors());
var server = require('http').Server(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(server);
var redis = require('ioredis');
var Redis = new redis();
Redis.subscribe('live-updates');
Redis.on('message', function(channel, message) {
message = JSON.parse(message);
console.log(message);
io.emit(channel + ':' + message.event, message.data);
});
server.listen(3000, function() {
console.log('listening');
});
And the node server is running and listening successfully in the background using forever. Yet, there's no handshaking occurring. What's going on here?
Does the fact that I'm using SSL have something to do with this?
Edit
I have updated my node.js server configuration the the following, and am still stuck where I began.
var app = require('express')();
var cors = require('cors');
app.use(cors());
var https = require('https');
var fs = require('fs');
var io = require('socket.io')(https);
var redis = require('ioredis');
var Redis = new redis();
Redis.subscribe('live-updates');
Redis.on('message', function(channel, message) {
message = JSON.parse(message);
console.log(message);
io.emit(channel + ':' + message.event, message.data);
});
var options = {
key: fs.readFileSync('/etc/nginx/ssl/mysite.com/17710/server.key'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('/etc/nginx/ssl/mysite.com/17710/server.crt')
};
https.createServer(options, app).listen(3000, function() {
console.log('listening');
});