JavaScript causes error on nodeJS server

Question

I am trying to run a nodeJS test script with socket.io but the deployed script on my server causes an error if I am trying to include any javascript.

Just calling the HTML via nginx on my localhost does not throw any error.

this is my index.html:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>NodeJS Realtime Test</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="/client/app.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <p>Moin!</p>
</body>
</html>

and this is the content of the app.js:

console.log("test");

Chrome throws me this error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < app.js:1

In Opera, the error is:

Syntax error at line 1 while loading: expected expression, got '<'  Linked script compilation   app.js

also, the debugger shows that the error occurs on char one of my index.html file. what am I missing here?

The error in Chrome is pointing to line 1 in app.js, not in index.html. Did you look what the file /client/app.js looks like by opening it in the browser (or using Chrome's dev tools)? — Jani Hartikainen
– Jani Hartikainen, Commented Jun 14, 2012 at 12:42
indeed. opening app.js on the server shows the content of index.html. so it is the server configuration that is causing the error. I took the one from the socket.io example. — McFarlane
– McFarlane, Commented Jun 14, 2012 at 12:46

McFarlane · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-14 12:54:20Z

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Thanks to the comment of Jani Hartikainen I recognized that it was a misconfiguration of the nodeJS server.

The example I used served index.html on any request on the server. It works using this configuration: https://gist.github.com/701407

answered Jun 14, 2012 at 12:54

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