Nodejs (sailsjs), NGINX and sails.io (socket.io) - node.js

Question

I'm using NGINX to handle my Nodejs servers and now I want to start using socket.io on them, doing research before starting to play with socket.io i found Sailsjs which I grew rather found of and now currently using.
The problem I meet though, is that the client can't connect through NGINX on socket.io, or sails.io.
This is the URL path for my current APP:
https://localhost/economy
And the url for sails.io is, as standard:
https://localhost/economy/assets/js/dependencies/sails.io.js
Now!
Using FileSeek I found out where sails.js use "require("socket.io")", which is in the "loadSocketIO.js" (node_modules\sails\lib\hooks\sockets\lib). I edited the file to say:
var io = sails.io = sails.ws =
SocketServer.listen(sails.hooks.http.server, {
resource: 'economy',
logger: {
info: function (){}
}
});
adding the resource: 'economy', line.
Then on the client side I did the same:
var socket = io.connect('https://localhost/economy/socket.io', { resource: 'economy' });
I've been playing with this and tried different ways, like "economy/socket.io", the full socket.io path etc.
Any help, is a lot of help!
I've been struggling for a day now so I figured i'd ask for some help :)

Answer 1

You shouldn't need to change anything on the Sails side. Try reading up on proxy_pass for your location directive in Nginx.
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/websocket.html
This is an excerpt from the above link:
location /chat/ {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_pass http://localhost:1337;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}

Answer 2

SOLUTION!
Run everything as it is, the only part you have to edit is in NGINX.
set a server block with the servername as economy.localhost/, and you're done :)
Remember to link economy.localhost to 127.0.0.1 or set a cname if this is a production server :)

Answer 3

The example showed here worked for me.
Basically for nginx WebSocket support you need to include the following config.
server {
server_name app.domain.com;
location / {
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
}
}