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Hi guys, I recently started using glitch and was trying to create a node server from my GitHub repo but for some reason I can’t get it to run. Can someone help me figure out what’s wrong?

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app.get('/', function (req, res) {
     res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});

index.html isn’t in the same directory as index.js - can you find the path to index.html?

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index.html is in a folder ‘public’ which is in the same directory as index.js. Therefore I’m doing

app.use(express.static(__dirname + 'public'));
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
    res.sendFile(__dirname + '/index.html');
});
4

Hmmm - I just see “starting…” forever. This seems like a phaser.js game - could you try editing the HTML file so it just says “hello world” or something?

5

It might work better if you use this:

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
     res.sendFile(__dirname + '/public/index.html');
});

or, you could try doing just this and have all your files in the public folder:

app.use(express.static('public/')); // if that does not work, remove the slash
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I have a few beginner question, I hope you don’t mind.

Once I have all the server code implemented, do I have to start the node server myself from the console before running the project by executing:

node index.js

in the terminal?

And if yes which all ports am I allowed to use?

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You need to create a package.json file - see https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json, and in start put node public/index.js.
Glitch only supports port 3000.

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Thank you.
In my index.js, I have:

server.listen(8081, function () {
     console.log(`Listening on ${server.address().port}`);
});

So I need to change 8081 to 3000, right?

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Yes, that is the port Glitch supports.

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