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Vatsal A Mehta
Vatsal A Mehta

Reputation: 430

Why absolute-path is not working in my project?

the hierarchy of my files looks something like:

BACKEND(COMPLETE)
->Routers
   ->userrouter.js
->login.html

I wanted the access of my login.html file in userrouter.js for which I copied the Path(absolute) of the login.html file.

But I am getting this error:

path must be absolute or specify root to res.sendFile()

My Code:

function loginUser(req,res)
{
res.sendFile('C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\backend(complete)\login.html');
res.end();
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1532

Answers (2)

hitesh v
hitesh v

Reputation: 26

Try modifying C:\Users\ASUS\Desktop\backend(complete)\login.html to C:/\Users/\ASUS/\Desktop/\backend(complete)/\login.html

Try using path (path.join) npm package which Node provides out of the box to avoid this confusion irrespective of the OS.

Upvotes: 1

damnedOperator
damnedOperator

Reputation: 218

Try the Npm package path and use path.join(["yourpath", "here") for cross system compatibility. Note that every part between slashes needs to be its own entry in the array.

Upvotes: 1

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