I’m currently trying to set up websockets with socketio and laravel-echo-server with Laravel as my API and React as my front-end. I have everything set up properly except I can’t access port 6001 over https.
Whenever I navigate to https://api.mysite.com:6001/socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=websocket, which is where my websockets are hosted, I should get a response, but all I get is ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED or ERR_INVALID cert since it’s not allowing me to access port 6001 over https.
Is there a way to do this?
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Hi there,
What I would personally do is to use an Nginx server as a reverse proxy. That way you could install an SSL certificate via Nginx and then proxy the traffic to the Laravel echo server.
The proxy rule would look as follows:
location /ws/{
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:6001/;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
}
Then rather than using https://your_domain:6001 in your frontend, you would use https://your_domain/ws which would internally proxy the traffic to the echo server.
Let me know how it goes! Best, Bobby
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