I have an Express Node.js application. The structure is the following:
myapp
+-- node_modules
+-- public
|-- htmls
|-- myhtml.html
+-- routes
|-- index.js
|-- app.js
My app.js is as follows:
var express = require('express')
, routes = require('./routes')
, user = require('./routes/user')
, http = require('http')
, path = require('path');
var app = express();
// all environments
// some stuff...
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use('/public', express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.get('/', routes.index);
app.get('/content/:file', routes.plainhtml);
http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){
console.log('Express server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});
My routes/index.js is as follows:
// Some stuff...
exports.plainhtml = function(req, res) {
res.sendfile('/public/htmls/' + req.params.file);
};
I open my browser and try to get the following address: http://localhost:3000/content/myhtml.html and I get 404 error:
Express 404 Error: ENOENT, stat '/public/htmls/myhtml.html'
The routing is done and the function is called... the problem is when I try to use res.sendfile. What address should I pass there???
What to do?
Your express app is in app.js.
The path parameter for sendfile is a relative path. So when you do res.sendfile('xxx.js'), express will look for xxx.js in the same directory that app.js is in.
If path starts with a slash / it means that it's an absolute path in the file system e.g. /tmp.
If you are using relative paths you can also specify the root path:
res.sendfile('passwd', { root: '/etc/' });
See the docs.