Hi All, Facing wss connection failed on nginx side. We are using nginx as reverse proxy. I searched on google it was showing required following config but after putting following config under stream it giving error as “nginx: [emerg] “location” directive is not allowed here in”. so I put same confi…

Hi Sheetal, Thanks for quick response. My nginx stream config as under and I have doubt, do we have /mqtt is directory on hivemq installation location? because we are putting config on nginx to location search under /mqtt. My hivemq server running on 8883 I am using nginx as reverse proxy but due d…

Hello Prasad, Welcome to Hivemq community Forum. To enable reverse proxy for web-sockets you will need to put your configuration inside http block. Following are the minimum required configs to enable websockets for Hivemq broker. server { listen 8001; #please make sure port is …

Hi Sheetal, Thanks for quick reply. I configured the same config under http block it giving bind error on port 443. Actually on nginx stream block is configured and when I put above config in server section of stream it showing error as location is not allowed in stream so I google it and put it …

Hi Prasad, could you please confirm exact HiveMQ version and flavour you are running? thanks! Dasha from HiveMQ Team

Hello Prasad, Thanks for reply. HiveMQ 3.3.3 is already reached end of life. We would recommend updating to the supported hivemq version . It is not supported to listen on same port (443) in http and stream hence you are getting error with binding port. To resolve issue you will need to change por…

Hello @prasad9920 , Can you please share your Hivemq config.xml as well as full Nginx configs. Also please share your full error what you observe with Nginx. Kind regards Sheetal from the HiveMQ Team

Hi Sheetal, Thanks for help my bad I was putting wrong port 8883 it is actually 8885. After that change it is working properly under http block. Following is the config for http section now. Keeping for reference upstream broker1 { server 192.168.10.35:8885; } server { listen 443 ssl; listen…

Hi Sheetal, is it possible to share haproxy config for hivemq? Regards, Prasad

Wss configuration for nginx reverse proxy

prasad9920 February 25, 2022, 9:53am 5

Hi Daria,

hivmq version 3.3.3 and centos 7.9

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Wss configuration for nginx reverse proxy

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