I need some advice for getting a basic express app to work on my site. The site is hosted on Arvixe.com windows hosting. I can run code on my localhost and it works but as soon as I move it to the Arvixe site it is giving me a 404 error - file or directory not found.
At the root of my site I have a folder called node_modules that has express in it. I also have a app.js file and a web.config file.
This is the web.config file:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="iisnode" path="app.js" verb="*" modules="iisnode" />
</handlers>
<defaultDocument enabled="true">
<files>
<add value="app.js" />
</files>
</defaultDocument>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
This is the app.js file:
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.get('/', function(request, response) {
response.send("This would be some HTML");
});
app.get('/api', function(request, response) {
response.send({name:"Raymond",age:40});
});
app.listen(process.env.PORT);
The only difference between the localhost version and this version is there is a web.config file and in app.js I changed app.listen to use PORT instead of a local port number. The only files I'm accessing should be app.js and express and they are both there.
I'm very new to node.js and express. Am I missing something about how these files communicate between one another or what is happening to stop my site from running? Is there a simple way I could debug things like this in the future?
