path must be absolute or specify root to res.sendFile error in index.html

Christian Nwamba

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Nov 28, 2014, 6:28:27 PM11/28/14

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Hi i am trying to include angular to my index.html but i get the error: path must be absolute or specify root to res.sendFile.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

</head>

</body>

</html>

server.js

// set up ======================================================================

var express = require('express');

var app = express(); // create our app w/ express

var mongoose = require('mongoose'); // mongoose for mongodb

var port = process.env.PORT || 8080; // set the port

var database = require('./config/database'); // load the database config

var morgan = require('morgan'); // log requests to the console (express4)

var bodyParser = require('body-parser'); // pull information from HTML POST (express4)

var methodOverride = require('method-override'); // simulate DELETE and PUT (express4)

// configuration ===============================================================

mongoose.connect(database.url); // connect to mongoDB database on modulus.io

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public')); // set the static files location /public/img will be /img for users

app.use(morgan('dev')); // log every request to the console

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({'extended':'true'})); // parse application/x-www-form-urlencoded

app.use(bodyParser.json()); // parse application/json

app.use(bodyParser.json({ type: 'application/vnd.api+json' })); // parse application/vnd.api+json as json

app.use(methodOverride());

// routes ======================================================================

require('./app/routes.js')(app);

//api route

app.get('*', function(req, res){

res.sendFile('./public/index.html')

})

// listen (start app with node server.js) ======================================

app.listen(port, function(){

console.log("App listening on port " + port);

});

Please help.

Thanks

Danilo Sampaio

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Nov 29, 2014, 11:56:06 AM11/29/14

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The lib directory should inside public directory, and remove the '.' at the beginning.

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Ryan Schmidt

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Nov 29, 2014, 11:56:57 AM11/29/14

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On Nov 28, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Christian Nwamba wrote:

> Hi i am trying to include angular to my index.html but i get the error: path must be absolute or specify root to res.sendFile.

This is an express-specific question. You may get better advice about express questions on the express-js google group instead of on this general nodejs google group.

> app.get('*', function(req, res){
> res.sendFile('./public/index.html')
> })

This is the res.sendFile it's talking about. As it says in the error message, and in the express documentation...

http://expressjs.com/api.html#res.sendFile

"Unless the root option is set in the options object, path must be an absolute path of the file."

So either make it absolute:

res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'public', index.html'))

Or use the options object to specify the root:

res.sendFile('index.html', {root: path.join(__dirname, 'public')})

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