"Cannot GET /" with Connect on Node.js

Question

I'm trying to start serving some static web pages using connect like this:

var connect = require("connect");
var nowjs = require("now");
var io = require("socket.io");


var app = connect.createServer(
  connect.static(__dirname + '/public')
);

app.listen(8180);

So I added a simple index.html at the /public directory on the same directory as the app.js file is, but when I try to view the page on my browser I get this response from node:

Cannot GET /

What I'm doing wrong and how I can correct it?

Answer 1

You may be here because you're reading the Apress PRO AngularJS book...

As is described in a comment to this question by KnarfaLingus:

[START QUOTE]

The connect module has been reorganized. do:

npm install connect 

and also

npm install serve-static

Afterward your server.js can be written as:

var connect = require('connect');
var serveStatic = require('serve-static'); 
var app = connect(); 

app.use(serveStatic('../angularjs')); 

app.listen(5000);

[END QUOTE]

Although I do it, as the book suggests, in a more concise way like this:

var connect = require('connect');
var serveStatic = require('serve-static');

connect().use(
    serveStatic("../angularjs")
).listen(5000);