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Serving Static in Express Node.js

Posted on September 8, 2015

i have this in my server.js. It is working fine on my local server. When i try on digitalocean. no images are showing up. I am all new to this. Please help. Thank you.

//Setting Static Files Directory app.use(express.static(‘./public’));



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Same problem here. Non of the status files in public are being found. Getting errors in the console in the browser. Any ideas?

Paths are relative to the directory from where you launch your node process. http://expressjs.com/en/starter/static-files.html

Try

app.use('/static', express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

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