diff --git a/services/web/app/views/project/editor.jade b/services/web/app/views/project/editor.jade
index 94af094c2e..3a04e01d4b 100644
--- a/services/web/app/views/project/editor.jade
+++ b/services/web/app/views/project/editor.jade
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ block content
 				h3 #{translate("loading")}...
 				.progress
 					.progress-bar(style="width: 20%", ng-style="{'width': state.load_progress + '%'}")
+				p.text-center.text-danger(ng-if="state.error").ng-cloak {{ state.error }}
 
 		.global-alerts(ng-cloak)
 			.alert.alert-danger.small(ng-if="connection.forced_disconnect")
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ block content
 		.modal-footer
 			button.btn.btn-info(ng-click="done()") #{translate("ok")}
 
-	script(src='#{settings.websocketsUrl}/socket.io/socket.io.js')
+	script(src='/socket.io/socket.io.js')
 
 	//- We need to do .replace(/\//g, '\\/') do that '</script>' -> '<\/script>'
 	//- and doesn't prematurely end the script tag.
diff --git a/services/web/public/coffee/ide.coffee b/services/web/public/coffee/ide.coffee
index c80cf86f3b..3f41b741d3 100644
--- a/services/web/public/coffee/ide.coffee
+++ b/services/web/public/coffee/ide.coffee
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ define [
 		$scope.state = {
 			loading: true
 			load_progress: 40
+			error: null
 		}
 		$scope.ui = {
 			leftMenuShown: false
diff --git a/services/web/public/coffee/ide/connection/ConnectionManager.coffee b/services/web/public/coffee/ide/connection/ConnectionManager.coffee
index 804fdea366..01bc6275bd 100644
--- a/services/web/public/coffee/ide/connection/ConnectionManager.coffee
+++ b/services/web/public/coffee/ide/connection/ConnectionManager.coffee
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 define [], () ->
 	class ConnectionManager
 		constructor: (@ide, @$scope) ->
+			if !io?
+				console.error "Socket.io javascript not loaded. Please check that the real-time service is running and accessible."
+				@ide.socket =
+					on: () ->
+				$scope.$apply () =>
+					@$scope.state.error = "Could not connect to websocket server :("
+				return
+			
 			@connected = false
 
 			@$scope.connection =