Nsryjdtyk

Very new to express and file system and don't have much idea about directories so getting this error.

var express= require('express');

var path= require('path');

var mysql= require('mysql');

var bodyParser= require('body-parser');



var app= express();

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

res.set( {

    'Access-control-Allow-Origin': '*'

});

return res.redirect('/public/signup.html');

 }).listen(2121);



console.log('server Running on : 2121');

app.use('/public',express.static(__dirname +"/public"));

Getting error "Cannot GET /public/signup.html"
My directories is:

-Express

--Server.js

--public

---signup.html 

Looks like your code is a little jumbled up. Separate out your port listener - this should always come last. Add your routes and middleware before that as individual calls to app, and also register your get request to redirect back to your server to the signup html.

This should work:

var express = require("express");

var path = require("path");



var port = 2121;

var app = express();



// Register Middlewares/Headers

app.use((req, res, next) => {

  res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");

  next();

});



// Register Static

app.use("/public", express.static(__dirname + "/public"));



// Register redirect

app.get('/', (req, res) => {

  res.redirect(req.baseUrl + '/public/signup.html');

});





app.listen(port, () => {

  console.log("server Running on : ", port);

});

You're calling listen on app before you call use on your middleware and there are a few mistakes in your code. I think this should work:

app

  .use('/public',express.static(`${__dirname}/public`))

  .get('/', (req, res) => {

    res.header({

      'Access-control-Allow-Origin': '*'

    });

    res.redirect(`${req.baseUrl}/public/signup.html`);

  })

  .listen(2121);

You should provide

app.use('/public',express.static(__dirname +"/public"));

Before you using app.get

Full example:

var express= require('express');

var path= require('path');

var mysql= require('mysql');

var bodyParser= require('body-parser');



var app= express();

app.use('/public',express.static(__dirname +"/public"));

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

   res.set( {

       'Access-control-Allow-Origin': '*'

   });

   return res.redirect('/public/signup.html');

 }).listen(2121);



console.log('server Running on : 2121');