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Rouz
Rouz

Reputation: 1367

Does express serve static files from hidden (dot) folder

My app is serving a static folder like this 

app.use('/static', serveStatic(__dirname + '/view/my/static/folder'));

How to configure server to serve a hidden folder? So if i have 

/view/my/static/folder/.hidden/some-text.txt

I would like to see this on

localhost:8080/static/.hidden/some-text.txt

Upvotes: 9

Views: 4146

Answers (2)

ki9
ki9

Reputation: 5574

I found this question from googling after I couldn't serve hidden files. I discovered that express doesn't serve them by default.

You can serve them with the dotfiles option: 

app.use(express.static( __dirname+'/static', {dotfiles:'allow'} ));

source

Upvotes: 19

Rouz
Rouz

Reputation: 1367

Looks like the issue happened due to my stupidity. Nodemon did not catch that i added a .folder and did not restart server (which I did not notice). When I restarted it manually everything worked like expected

Upvotes: 1

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