MCheli
6/13/2016 - 7:32 PM

Very Simple HTTP NodeJS Server

Very Simple HTTP NodeJS Server

server.js
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var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');

var hostname = 'localhost';
var port = 3000;

var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    console.log('Request for ' + req.url + ' by method ' + req.method);
    if (req.method == 'GET') {
        var fileUrl;
        if (req.url == '/') fileUrl = '/index.html';
        else fileUrl = req.url;
        var filePath = path.resolve('./public' + fileUrl);
        var fileExt = path.extname(filePath);
        if (fileExt == '.html') {
            fs.exists(filePath, function (exists) {
                if (!exists) {
                    res.writeHead(404, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
                    res.end('<html><body><h1>Error 404: ' + fileUrl +
                        ' not found</h1></body></html>');
                    return;
                }
                res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
                fs.createReadStream(filePath).pipe(res);
            });
        }
        else {

            res.writeHead(404, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
            res.end('<html><body><h1>Error 404: ' + fileUrl +
                ' not a HTML file</h1></body></html>');
        }
    }
    else {
        res.writeHead(404, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
        res.end('<html><body><h1>Error 404: ' + req.method +
            ' not supported</h1></body></html>');
    }
})

server.listen(port, hostname, function () {
    //noinspection JSAnnotator
    console.log(`Server running at http://${hostname}:${port}/`);
});