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Petr Marek
Petr Marek

Reputation: 725

ExpressJS serve static files on post request

I need Express server to serve static files (website). It works in my code well:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var path = require('path');
var p = path.join(__dirname, '../web/public');
app.use("/files", function (req, res) {
    return res.send("I will do something on server");
});
app.use(express.static(p));
app.use('/*',express.static(p));
let port = 80;
var server = app.listen(port);

But when I have a form served by this server, it redirects after submit, and the page displays only something like

Cannot POST /dashboard/

How can I correctly handle post requests within the meaning of serving static files? I tried to add this right before declaring the port:

app.post(express.static(p));
app.post('/*', express.static(p));

But it doesn't work.

PS: my entire page is served (I want that) from index.html. In order to do that, I have in my code that:

app.use(express.static(p));
app.use('/*',express.static(p));

How do I "redirect" post requests to index.html? In this file I have the entire app logic (it is a single page app).

PS2: I really need default submit. Going around that is not a solution for me (I want to offer the user to save their login and password, and without submitting the form, Google chrome will not offer that to users). And on the other side I really need use POST, as the login form is transferring sensitive data...

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1232

Answers (1)

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 63069

There is no file called dashboard so there is nothing for express.static to serve.

To handle that dashboard route, you can do this:

app.post("/dashboard", function (req, res) {
  return res.send("I will do something with this post");
});

If you want to redirect 404 traffic to index.html, you can do this after all your route definitions:

app.use("/", function (req, res) {
  return res.redirect("/index.html");
});

Upvotes: 1

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