Hello.
I am following this instruction How To Create a Web Server in Node.js with the HTTP Module
When i start node js server. it is working normally. But if i call from chrome browser. Server is crashing.
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01:~/first-servers# node htmlFile.js
Server is running on http://161.35.144.72:8000
/root/first-servers/htmlFile.js:7
fs.readFile(__dirname + "/index.html")
^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'readFile' of undefined
at Server.requestListener (/root/first-servers/htmlFile.js:7:8)
at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
at Server.emit (events.js:214:7)
at parserOnIncoming (_http_server.js:619:12)
at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:115:23)
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01:~/first-servers#
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01:~/first-servers# ls -a
. .. csv.js hello.js html.js htmlFile.js index.html json.js routes.js
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-ams3-01:~/first-servers#
Thank you.
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Hey!
You’re probably missing the fs (NodeJS’s file system module) import, adding this to the first line of your file might work:
const fs = require('fs');
If it complains about the const, you’re probably using an older version of NodeJS, you could either upgrade to a new one or change the const to var.
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