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Virus721
Virus721

Reputation: 8315

How to access to the application through browser?

How can I access my server through the browser once I've set up the server ?

In PHP I simply have to put my files in the www/ folder and then go to http://127.0.0.1/index.php, but how can I do that with NodeJS ?

My server's code is from a tutorial :

var app = require(‘express’).createServer();

app.get(‘/’, function(request, response){
    response.send(‘Hello Web Designer’);
});

app.listen(8888);

But whenever I go to http://127.0.0.1:8888/ i get a "Problem loading the page". So either my server is not running correctly (hard to tell when the NodeJS console shows "...") or I am not accessing it correctly.

What can I do please ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2534

Answers (2)

Silom
Silom

Reputation: 746

you have to send a http head and end the response.

Try this code.

var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.write('hello world');
  res.end();
}).listen(8888);

(Pseudo Code)

Also don't use any frameworks to learn how node works. You can run you index.js now and call localhost:8888

Upvotes: 1

ramseykhalaf
ramseykhalaf

Reputation: 3400

Did you start the server? The apache server runs php, in the nodejs world, there is a javascript runtime that needs to be started.

Try node server.js from the command line (or whatever your file is called) to get it to listen and serve incoming requests.

Upvotes: 0

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