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Krister Johansson
Krister Johansson

Reputation: 711

Express JS subdomain static content

I have a API written in Node JS Express JS. I used apidocjs.com to generate the static content. The problem i am having is i want the docs file to be under a subdomain docs.example.com or api.example.com/docs if that is the best practice? 

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/docs/api'));

app.use('/v1', subdomain('api', require('./controller/api_v1')(stormpath, log)));
app.use(subdomain('docs', require('./controller/docs')(stormpath, log)));

app.use(require('./controller/index')(stormpath, log));

This works if i change the index.html in docs/api to start.html. So the last problem is how to stop express JS to start the index.html if i do not want it to?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1786

Answers (2)

Krister Johansson
Krister Johansson

Reputation: 711

So i did it :)

Here is how. I used this lib to handel subdomain express-subdomain

"APP.JS"
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/docs/api', {
    index: false,
    redirect: false
}));

app.use(subdomain('docs', require('./controller/docs')(log)));

"docs/api"
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname+'/../docs/api/index.html'));

Upvotes: 0

joews
joews

Reputation: 30330

http://api.example.com/docs is easily confused for an API resource called docs.

http://docs.example.com/ avoids that ambiguity so it is probably a better choice.

Upvotes: 2

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