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Aleski
Aleski

Reputation: 1442

Express Server 404ing All Requests Made From Index

In the following express/gulpfile.js code, I am having an issue with express serving the index.html fine but the index itself cannot hit the lib/* directory and just 404s all the requests made at the top of my index.html.

I am proxying browser-sync with nodemon. However I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with my browser-sync config because when I just use node config/server.js the same problem persists.

Express config:

var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var filePaths = require('./filePaths');
var app = express();

//filePaths.releaseIndex === './release/index.html'
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
    res.sendFile(filePaths.releaseIndex, {root: './'});
});

app.listen(5000);

Gulp task config: 

//filePaths.release === './release'
//filePaths.server === './config/server.js'
gulp.task('browser-sync', ['nodemon'], function() {
    browserSync.init(null, {
        proxy: "http://localhost:5000",
        files: [filePaths.release],
        browser: "google chrome",
        port: 7000
    });
});

gulp.task('nodemon', function (cb) {
    var started = false;
    return nodemon({
        script: filePaths.server
    }).on('start', function () {
        if (!started) {
            cb();
            started = true; 
        } 
    });
});

index.html:

<script src="lib/es6-shim.min.js"></script>

Folder structure:

config
    server.js
release
    index.html
        lib
            es6-shim.min.js
            Rx.js
            ...

I've tried many different variations in the res.sendFile() but just can't get a foothold although I am sure that it is the problem.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 91

Answers (1)

gunterB
gunterB

Reputation: 195

Your server does not handle any other paths than /. To handle them you could add this after your first route: 

app.get('*', function (req, res) => {
    res.sendFile(req.url, {root: filePaths.release})
});

Upvotes: 1

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