Node JS Error ENOENT

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I m following along with   The Node Beginner Book  After testing with the code from another SO post   var Fs   require  fs     var dirs     tmp    var index  var stats   for  index   0  index  lt  dirs length    index        try               stats   Fs lstatSync dirs index            console log dirs index       is a directory      stats isDirectory               catch  e                console log dirs index           e             The error persist      Error  ENOENT  no such file or directory  tmp      The permissions on tmp are 777   requestHandlers js  var querystring   require  querystring        fs   require  fs     function start response  postData      console log  Request handler  start  was called        var body     lt html gt          lt head gt          lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type          content  text html  charset UTF-8    gt          lt style gt input display  block  margin  1em 0   lt  style gt          lt  head gt          lt body gt          lt form action   upload  method  post  gt          lt textarea name  text  rows  20  cols  60  gt  lt  textarea gt          lt input type  submit  value  Submit text    gt          lt  form gt          lt  body gt          lt  html gt         response writeHead 200    Content-Type    text html         response write body       response end       function upload response  postData      console log  Request handler  upload  was called       response writeHead 200    Content-Type    text plain       response write  You ve sent the text       querystring parse postData  text     response end       function show response  postData      console log  Request handler  show  was called       fs readFile   tmp test jpg    binary   function error  file        if error          response writeHead 500    Content-Type    text plain           response write error     n          response end          else         response writeHead 200    Content-Type    image jpg           response write file   binary          response end                   exports start   start  exports upload   upload  exports show   show    Index js  var server   require    server    var router   require    router    var requestHandlers   require    requestHandlers     var handle      handle        requestHandlers start  handle   start     requestHandlers start  handle   upload     requestHandlers upload  handle   show     requestHandlers show   server start router route  handle     A little stumped  any help appreciated

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tmp test jpg  is not the correct path     this path starts with   which is the root directory   In unix  the shortcut to the current directory is    Try this    tmp test jpg

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To expand a bit on why the error happened  A forward slash at the beginning of a path means  start from the root of the filesystem  and look for the given path   No forward slash means  start from the current working directory  and look for the given path    The path    tmp test jpg   thus translates to looking for the file test jpg in the tmp folder at the root of the filesystem  e g  c   on windows    on  nix   instead of the webapp folder  Adding a period     in front of the path explicitly changes this to read  start from the current working directory   but is basically the same as leaving the forward slash out completely     tmp test jpg   tmp test jpg

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use  temp  in lieu of  tmp     temp test png   it worked for me after i realized the tmp is a temporary folder that didn t exist on my computer  but my temp was my temporary folder       EDIT   I also created a new folder  tmp  in my C  drive and everything worked perfectly  The book may have missed mentioning that small step  check out http   webchat freenode net  channels node js to chat with some of the node js community

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if your tmp folder is relative to the directory where your code is running remove the   in front of  tmp    So you just have tmp test jpg in your code  This worked for me in a similar situation

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You can include a different jade file into your template  that to from a different directory  views       layout jade static       page jade   To include the layout file from views dir to static page jade  page jade  extends    views layout

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change    tmp test jpg     to     tmp test jpg

[node.js] Node JS Error: ENOENT

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