display html page with node js

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This is my first time with node js  I get it to display the index html  but it doesn t display the images on the site or anything else  it ONLY shows the basic html stuff  Here s how I set it up  There s no apache  php or anything else on the server  just ubuntu  proftp and node and curl and the other dependencies   I made the main directory for the node files  var nodeFiles and the directory for the html site files is  var nodeFiles www so for my node server file I did it like this   var http   require  http        fs   require  fs    fs readFile   var nodeFiles www index html   function  err  html        if  err            throw err                    http createServer function request  response              response writeHeader 200    Content-Type    text html               response write html             response end             listen 80         this works  but it ONLY shows the index html file and NOTHING attached to it  so no images  no  effects or anything that the html file should display  The files and directories are all correct  I ve double checked and the permissions of the folders are correct  So what else do I have to do to get node to display the rest of the site  I hope I ve explained my self correctly  I was told this is the place to ask development questions  Thank you for taking the time to read this

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This did the trick for me   var express   require  express    app   express     app use      express static   dirname          app listen 8080

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but it ONLY shows the index html file and NOTHING attached to it  so no images     no effects or anything that the html file should display     That s because in your program that s the only thing that you return to the browser regardless of what the request looks like   You can take a look at a more complete example that will return the correct files for the most common web pages  HTML  JPG  CSS  JS  in here https   gist github com hectorcorrea 2573391  Also  take a look at this blog post that I wrote on how to get started with node  I think it might clarify a few things for you  http   hectorcorrea com blog introduction-to-node-js

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Check this basic code to setup html server  its work for me     var http   require  http        fs   require  fs      fs readFile    index html   function  err  html        if  err            throw err                    http createServer function request  response              response writeHeader 200    Content-Type    text html               response write html             response end             listen 8000

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If your goal is to simply display some static files you can use the Connect package  I have had some success  I m still pretty new to NodeJS myself   using it and the twitter bootstrap API in combination   at the command line      gt  cd  lt path you wish your server to reside gt     gt  npm install connect   Then in a file  I named  Server js  var connect   require  connect       http   require  http    connect       use connect static   lt pathyouwishtoserve gt         use connect directory   lt pathyouwishtoserve gt         listen 8080     Finally      gt node Server js   Caveats   If you don t want to display the directory contents  exclude the  use connect directory line   So I created a folder called  server  placed index html in the folder and the bootstrap API in the same folder  Then when you access the computers IP 8080 it s automagically going to use the index html file   If you want to use port 80  so just going to http     and you don t have to type in  8080 or some other port   you ll need to start node with sudo  I m not sure of the security implications but if you re just using it for an internal network  I don t personally think it s a big deal  Exposing to the outside world is another story   Update 1 28 2014   I haven t had to do the following on my latest versions of things  so try it out like above first  if it doesn t work  and you read the errors complaining it can t find nodejs   go ahead and possibly try the below   End Update  Additionally when running in ubuntu I ran into a problem using nodejs as the name  with NPM   if you re having this problem  I recommend using an alias or something to  rename  nodejs to node   Commands I used  for better or worse    Create a new file called node      gt gedit  usr local bin node    bin bash exec  nodejs       sudo chmod -x  usr local bin node   That ought to make   node Server js    work just fine

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