Websockets on ElasticBeanstalk giving 404 - nginx

Question

I'm trying to deploy a websocket server to Elastic Beanstalk.
I have a Docker container that contains both nginx and a jar server, with nginx just doing forwarding. The nginx.conf is like this:
listen 80;
location /ws/ { # <-- this part only works locally
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8090/; # jar handles websockets on port 8090
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
location / { # <-- this part works locally and on ElasticBeanstalk
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/; # jar handles http requests on port 8080
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
}
I can run this docker locally and everything works fine - http requests are served, and I can connect websockets using ws://localhost:80/ws/ However, when I deploy to Elastic Beanstalk, http requests are still ok, but trying to connect websockets on ws://myjunk.elasticbeanstalk.com:80/ws/ gives a 404 error. Do I need something else to allow websockets on Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 1

Ok, got it working. I needed the ElasticBeanstalk load balancer to use TCP instead of HTTP.
To do this from the AWS console (as it's laid out on 5/16/2015), go to your ElasticBeanstalk environment, choose "Configuration" on the left menu, under "Network Tier" there's a "Load Balancing" pane. Click its cog wheel, then you can change the load balancer protocol from http to tcp.