“Cannot GET /” with Connect on Node.js

Question

I\'m trying to start serving some static web pages using connect like this:

var connect = require(\"connect\");
var nowjs = require(\"now\");
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Answer 1

You may be here because you're reading the Apress PRO AngularJS book...

As is described in a comment to this question by KnarfaLingus:

[START QUOTE]

The connect module has been reorganized. do:

npm install connect 

and also

npm install serve-static

Afterward your server.js can be written as:

var connect = require('connect');
var serveStatic = require('serve-static'); 
var app = connect(); 

app.use(serveStatic('../angularjs')); 

app.listen(5000);

[END QUOTE]

Although I do it, as the book suggests, in a more concise way like this:

var connect = require('connect');
var serveStatic = require('serve-static');

connect().use(
    serveStatic("../angularjs")
).listen(5000);

Answer 2

The easiest way to serve static files is to use "harp". It can be found here. You can serve up your files from the location you want via node is:

var harp = require("harp")
harp.server(projectPath [,args] [,callback])

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

This code should work:

var connect = require("connect");

var app = connect.createServer().use(connect.static(__dirname + '/public'));

app.listen(8180);

Also in connect 2.0 .createServer() method deprecated. Use connect() instead.

var connect = require("connect");

var app = connect().use(connect.static(__dirname + '/public'));

app.listen(8180);

Answer 4

You'll see the message Cannot GET / if you don't specify which page it is that you're trying to get, in other words if your URL is something like http://localhost:8180. Make sure you enter a page name, e.g. http://localhost:8180/index.html.

Answer 5

You may also want to try st, a node module for serving static files. Setup is trivial.

npm install connect

npm install st

And here's how my server-dev.js file looks like:

var connect = require('connect');
var http = require('http');
var st = require('st');

var app = connect()
    .use(st('app/dev'));

http.createServer(app).listen(8000);

or (with cache disabled):

var connect = require('connect');
var http = require('http');
var st = require('st');

var app = connect();

var mount = st({
  path: 'app/dev',
  cache: false
});

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  if (mount(req, res)) return;
}).listen(8000);

app.use(mount);

Answer 6

var connect = require('connect');
var serveStatic = require('serve-static');
var app = connect(); 
app.use(serveStatic('../angularjs'),  {default: 'angular.min.js'}); app.listen(3000);