title: Deploying Socket.io on a windows server
body: <p>I have a basic chat socket.io node.js application working on the localhost of a Windows server running Windows 7.</p>
  
  <p>Node and Socket.io installed without any issue and when I run my application through RDC to the windows server, the socket works perfectly.</p>
  
  <p>What I'm struggling with is how i access the socket e.g. "socket.io/socket.io.js" externally.</p>
  
  <p>I would have assumed it would be rather than "localhost:8000/socket.io/socket.io.js" it owuld be "{server_ip}:8000/socket.io/socket.io.js" however this does work.</p>
  
  <p>I saw some discussion about iisnode, but it seems that sockets arent supported yet with that implementation.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>