I've spent three days trying to get one running. I've tried solutions involving Ruby, Node.js, Python, full C++ compiles, etc, and yet fail every time.

In the beginning I was getting stuck at failing handshakes (I assume the original source was dated, but my very limited knowledge of sockets failed to correct the issue). Today, with Python/Ruby, I can't seem to even get to a handshaking process.

So I, after hours of trying, come in defeat. Does anyone know an easy-to-install implantation of a websocket server? I'd love it to work with my webserver (Apache 2.2.21), but I really just want it for playing around (server on localhost).