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yatika mika
yatika mika

Reputation: 45

Paths in nodejs

I'm facing a problem with paths in nodeJs, I route the user to the index page when he specifies the language in the url like this :

   app.all('/:locale?/index',function(req,res,next){
      if(!req.params.locale){
         console.log('no param');
     res.render('index');
      } else {
       var language = req.params.locale;
        i18n.setLocale(language);
       res.render('index');
      }
    });

However, in my index.html page the source of images are specified this way : ./images/img1.png , when I route the user, my index.html shows image not found because it considers the path " lang/images/img1.png , it considers the languge in my URL, could you please help?

Thank you

Upvotes: 3

Views: 144

Answers (1)

Carson Moore
Carson Moore

Reputation: 1287

The . in your path is telling the app to look at the current folder, which is lang. You should be able to get around this by specifying either a URL:

<img src="http://myApp.com/images/img1.png">

or by specifying the path from the root directory (everything except http://myApp.com)

<img src="/images/img1.png">

This is probably a better solution, since you can swap your domain easily; for example, working on your local machine (http://localhost:3000/) vs. a deployed app (http://myApp.com)

Generally speaking, I'd almost always use the path from root rather than a relative path (e.g., ./...), since I may move pages around in refactoring, and it's easier to look for direct references than relative ones if I have to change anything.

Upvotes: 2

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