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Yasin
Yasin

Reputation: 337

slash gets changed to backslash in the app direction

I'm using node and express in my app and web server for chrome to serve web pages from a local folder over the network. I wanna direct the app to a page this way:

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname + '/index.html'));
});

but it does not work and by using console.log(), this path is shown:

D:\node\project10\index.html

as you see slashes are changed to backslashes. also tried to solve it this way:

path.join(__dirname.replace(/\\/g,"/") + '/index.html'))

Without path.join the problem is solved but with having it the problem remains.

how to solve it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 443

Answers (1)

Vichmi
Vichmi

Reputation: 60

When you console.log() the path.join() it shows the dashes in the other direction because windows is working like that. In the browser the dashes are: '/' but in the windows are opposite. So the problem is not from the dashes.

Upvotes: 1

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