Using node.js as a simple web server

Question

I want to run a very simple HTTP server. Every GET request to example.com should get index.html served to it but as a regular HTML page (i.e., same

Answer 1

Edit:

Node.js sample app Node Chat has the functionality you want.
In it's README.textfile
3. Step is what you are looking for.

step1

• create a server that responds with hello world on port 8002

step2

• create an index.html and serve it

step3

• introduce util.js
• change the logic so that any static file is served
• show 404 in case no file is found

step4

• add jquery-1.4.2.js
• add client.js
• change index.html to prompt user for nickname

Here is the server.js

Here is the util.js