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Brent Aureli
Brent Aureli

Reputation: 473

Using express STATIC to server filesin NodeJS

Im attempting to serve files with the assistance of express.static and am having difficulty getting it to work.

My code includes the following:

var app             = express();
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
var app_router = express.Router();

    app_router.get('/', function(req, res){
        res.sendfile('/test.html');
    });

app.use('/', app_router);

This does not function in serving test.html, however if I replace it with ./public/test.html it is served correctly(Basically bypassing express.static)

Any assistance would be appreciated. Ive looked around and found code similar to mine that appears to be working however I must be missing something relatively simple and would appreciate another set of eyes. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (1)

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 888087

You're misunderstanding express.static().

res.sendFile() takes a path to a file on disk, and has nothing to do with express.static().

express.static() handles requests to paths matching files in the folder you pass it.

Upvotes: 1

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