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Simple web server with MIME type support and directory listing support for use in HTML5 and CSS3 Second Edition.
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// Simple static server with MIME based on https://gist.github.com/906395 | |
// Definitely not for production use. | |
var path = require('path'); | |
var http = require("http"); | |
var fs = require('fs'); | |
var url = require("url"); | |
try{ | |
var mime = require('mime'); | |
} catch(error) { | |
console.log("**** UNABLE TO START. Please install the MIME library with\n\n \tnpm install mime\n\n and restart."); | |
return; | |
} | |
var directory = "."; | |
var port = 8080; | |
var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) { | |
var uri = url.parse(request.url).pathname; | |
var filename = path.join(directory, uri); | |
fs.exists(filename, function (exists) { | |
if (!exists) { | |
response.writeHead(404, { | |
"Content-Type": "text/plain" | |
}); | |
response.write("404 Not Found\n"); | |
response.end(); | |
return; | |
} | |
if (fs.statSync(filename).isDirectory()) { | |
if (fs.existsSync(filename + 'index.html')) { | |
filename += 'index.html'; | |
}else{ | |
response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'}); | |
response.write('<html><head><title>Listing " + filename + "</title></head>'); | |
response.write('<body><h2>Index of ' + filename + '</h2><ul>'); | |
response.write('<li><a href="' + path.join(uri,"../") + '">..</a></li>'); | |
fs.readdir(filename, function(err, files) { | |
if (err) { | |
console.log('Error reading directory:', err); | |
}else{ | |
for (var index in files) { | |
var file = files[index]; | |
var slash = fs.statSync(path.join(filename, file)).isDirectory() ? '/' : '' | |
var output = '<li><a href="' + path.join(uri, file) | |
+ slash +'">' + file + slash + '</a></li>'; | |
response.write(output); | |
} | |
} | |
response.end('</u></body></html>'); | |
console.log("Serving directory listing for " + filename); | |
return; | |
}); | |
} | |
} | |
fs.readFile(filename, "binary", function (err, file) { | |
if (err) { | |
response.writeHead(500, { | |
"Content-Type": "text/plain" | |
}); | |
response.write(err + "\n"); | |
response.end(); | |
return; | |
} | |
var type = mime.lookup(filename); | |
response.writeHead(200, { | |
"Content-Type": type | |
}); | |
console.log("Serving " + filename); | |
response.write(file, "binary"); | |
response.end(); | |
}); | |
}); | |
}); | |
server.listen(port); | |
console.log("Listening on port " + port + ". Press CTRL+C to stop."); |
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