static files not being served

[Brian LeRoux]

Running:
- node 0.1.91
- Express 0.11.0

I'm sure this is a config issue. My app structure:

root
|- public
| '- foo.css
'- server.js

In my config I have:

p = require("path").join(__dirname, "public");
use(Static, { path:p });

But anything in there is 404'ing on me. What am I missing?

(And thx in advance! This is fun btw.)

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[francisco treacy]

Like this?

get('/public/*', function(file){
this.sendfile(__dirname + '/public/' + file)
})



2010/5/16 Brian LeRoux <brian....@gmail.com>:

[Aaron Heckmann]

Brian, it looks correct. What is __dirname returning?

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[Brian LeRoux]

@francisco - exactly like that...I'm using a similar hack atm. I
thought use(Static) should generate this automagically?
@aaron - __dirname returning correct value by sys.puts

I've attached an example app that distills the behavior I'm seeing.

thanks for helping guys! Very much appreciated.

[Guillermo Rauch]

It's better to use gist.github.com for posting examples.

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[Aaron Heckmann]

Brian,

It works fine for me - except for the css file not being included in the layout. :)

If I hit http://localhost:8000/public/app.css it works fine.

If still no luck, try installing node v0.1.94

[Brian LeRoux]

Problem: solved. /public was expected in the url unlike rails where it
just goes to root.

@aaron: hilarious! thanks for that url / now I get it.
@Guillermo: thanks for the input. I find multi-file / pathing
situations gists can things worse since they don't really demonstrate
the relative locations of files.



On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Aaron Heckmann

[vision media [ Tj Holowaychuk ]]

this should probably be documented better i guess. But ya I didnt want to 

do it like rails because it just slows down routing, possibly quiiiiite a lot so its 

a bad practice IMO but ya you get "/public/*" baked in with use(Static)

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