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Need Help with Socket.IO & Nginx Configuration on Laravel Forge

Hello everyone,

I'm currently facing an issue with configuring Socket.IO in a Laravel Forge environment using Nginx as a reverse proxy. While the static files (CSS, JS) are loading correctly, I'm unable to load the Socket.IO client script. I am consistently getting a 404 error when trying to access https://mydomain.com/socket.io/socket.io.js

Static files are served correctly from the public directory. However, the client-side Socket.IO script (socket.io/socket.io.js) returns a 404 error. that is my nginx config

# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/yourdomain.com/before/*;

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
    server_name yourdomain.com;
    server_tokens off;
    root /path/to/your/public/directory;

    # FORGE SSL (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    ssl_certificate /path/to/your/ssl_certificate.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /path/to/your/ssl_certificate_key.key;

    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_ciphers [Your_SSL_Ciphers];
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers off;
    ssl_dhparam /path/to/your/dhparam.pem;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.html index.htm;

    charset utf-8;

    # FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    include forge-conf/yourdomain.com/server/*;

    # Redirect all other requests to Node.js server
    location /socket.io/ {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    }
    
    # Serve static files directly
    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg)$ {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        access_log off;
        expires max;
    }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /path/to/your/error_log.log error;

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {

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