title: Node.js + Socket.io + Apache
body: <p>I'm looking for a way to integrate Node.js + Socket.io + Apache in the following way:
  I want apache to continue serving HTML / JS files.
  I want node.js to listen for connection on port 8080. Something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var util = require("util"),
      app = require('http').createServer(handler),
      io = require('/socket.io').listen(app),
      fs = require('fs'),
      os = require('os'),
      url = require('url');
  
  app.listen(8080);
  
  function handler (req, res) {
  
      fs.readFile(__dirname + '/index.html',
    function (err, data) {
      if (err) {
        res.writeHead(500);
        return res.end('Error loading index.html');
      }
  
      res.writeHead(200);
      res.end(data);
    });
  }
  
  io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
    socket.emit('news', { hello: 'world' });
  
    socket.on('my other event', function (data) {
      socket.emit('ok 1', { hello: 'world' });
    });
  
    socket.on('clientMSG', function (data) {
      socket.emit('ok 2', { hello: 'world' });
    });
  
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>if I access a HTML that connect to this server, it works, but I need to go to mydomian.com:8080/index.html.
  What I want is to be able to go to mydomian.com/index.html. and be able to open a socket connection:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script&gt;
          var socket = io.connect('http://mydomain.com', {port: 8080});
          socket.on('news', function (data) {
              console.log(data);
              socket.emit('my other event', { my: 'data from the client' });
          });
  
          socket.on('connect', function (data) {
              console.log("connect");
          });
  
          socket.on('disconnect', function (data) {
              console.log("disconnect");
          });
  
  
              //call this function when a button is clicked
          function sendMSG()
          {
              console.log("sendMSG"); 
              socket.emit('clientMSG', { msg: 'non-scheduled message from client' });
          }
  
      &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In this example I had to use fs.readFile of wont work when I go to the port 8080 in the URL.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions? Tks. </p>