A few notes on Nginx configuration In general Nginx with websocket support is required (I am using Nginx 1.4). It should work with Nginx 1.3 too. Add the following to your Nginx server section: location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:8090; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; } This is using a map to provide the Upgrade and Connection headers to the backend server. You need to add this map to the http section of your server: map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade { default upgrade; '' close; } Also make sure that you have the general proxy configuration like this in place: proxy_buffering on; proxy_ignore_client_abort off; proxy_redirect off; proxy_connect_timeout 90; proxy_send_timeout 90; proxy_read_timeout 90; proxy_buffer_size 4k; proxy_buffers 4 32k; proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k; proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k; proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_502 http_503 http_504; Thats it. -- (c)2013 struktur AG