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Prince Sharma
Prince Sharma

Reputation: 11

How to create web server with nodeJs

I m using following code for creating server with node js but whenever i run local host on this port in browser it always show index.html file. What is wrong i do ..

var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var index = fs.readFileSync('index.html');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'html'});
    res.end(index);
}).listen(9615);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 411

Answers (2)

Rayjax
Rayjax

Reputation: 7784

If you come from a php background, you may expect that creating a file on the server makes it accessible throught an url containing its file name.

In node.js, things work differently. You must use a routing system. Basically, you are going to tell that the "route" (url) views/about is the file about.html.

I think that the best option for you is to install Express framework : it will create basic routes for you, then you'll just have to copy and change some lines to set up new ones.

Express is also going to make a lot of other stuff easier and faster to develop

Have a look at this 5 min Express tutorial

Upvotes: 0

user3992211
user3992211

Reputation:

What you want is to create a router.

Check this: http://www.nodebeginner.org/

Upvotes: 2

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