404 Error - Express cannot find route

[Donald Hook]

I am trying to setup a new project and trying to define a simple route to verify the environment.  Express is not finding my route and I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

I am doing a GET to http://localhost:3000/salesforce  and get a 404.  The code is below.  When I do the GET, the [console.log('Something is happening.');] does write to the log, so I am not sure why it is not finding the route.

I am using Epxress 4.10.8

Thanks in advance ....

  

// call the packages we need
var express    = require('express');        // call express
var app        = express();                 // define our app using express
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

// configure app to use bodyParser()
// this will let us get the data from a POST
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());


// ROUTES FOR OUR API
// =============================================================================
var router = express.Router();              // get an instance of the express Router

// middleware to use for all requests
router.use(function(req, res, next) {
  // do logging
  console.log('Something is happening.');
  next(); // make sure we go to the next routes and don't stop here
});

// test route to make sure everything is working (accessed at GET http://localhost:8080/api)
router.get('/salesforce', function(req, res) {
    res.json({ message: 'hooray! welcome to our api!' });
});

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  console.log('** HTTP Error - 404 for request: ' + req.url);
  res.status(404).send('Sorry cant find that!');
});
// more routes for our API will happen here

// REGISTER OUR ROUTES -------------------------------
// all of our routes will be prefixed with /api
app.use('/salesforce', router);

[Paul Vencill]

The configuration you have here should respond to /salesforce/salesforce because you setup the mountpoint the way you did.

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[Jishnu Viswanath]

app.use('/', router);

Adding to what Paul mentioned, if you want api to start at root use above code.

Jishnu Viswanath
Software Engineer
Scienaptic Systems