404 not found fetching static files from nodejs/connect.static('../angularjs')

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I've seen another question here on SO, but I can't for the life of my figure out why I can't get this to work. In the same directory as my node installation I ran the commands npm install and npm install connect. Then again in the same directory as my node installation I created a server.js file:

var connect = require("connect");
var app = connect.createServer().use(connect.static('../angularjs'));
app.listen(8180);

so when then I'm again in my root node directory I do node server.js to start the server and it starts fine. In the root directory of node I made a folder called angularjs and in that folder I placed an index.html. Whenever I navigate in my browser to localhost:8180/index.html I get the message Cannot GET /index.html. It seems that this should be working, what in the world am I missing here?

@SLaks i would tend to agree, but I feel like I've tried every permutation and no luck. — wootscootinboogie
– wootscootinboogie, Commented Jun 3, 2014 at 2:30

Paul · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-03 03:04:23Z

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Be careful about where the directory is. From reading your post it appears that you have a node source directory that contains the angularjs directory, so that's what I created when testing.

On Linux, you can examine the directory and what files are in it with the ls or ls -l (verbose) commands

Works here with connect.static() parameter ./angularjs and does not work with ../angularjs

Test procedure

$ mkdir nodetest
$ cd nodetest
$ mkdir angularjs
$ cat >server.js <<EOF
var connect = require("connect");
var app = connect.createServer().use(connect.static('../angularjs'));
app.listen(8180);
EOF
$ npm install connect
$ emacs ./angularjs/test.html # make a html file to get
$ nodejs ./server.js &
$ wget http://localhost:8180/test.html
# fails 404
$ kill %1 // kill nodejs
$ emacs ./server.js # change ../angularjs to ./angularjs
$ nodejs ./server.js &
$ wget http://localhost:8180/test.html
# works

edited Jun 3, 2014 at 3:04

answered Jun 3, 2014 at 2:50

Paul

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2 Comments

wootscootinboogie Over a year ago

blah! thanks, i have never seen this one period notation stuff before. always seen two. thanks!

Paul Over a year ago

Good luck. One period and a slash is a subdirectory, two periods and a slash means back up a directory first, like cd .., and then go to that directory.

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