Serving Static content

[dtorres]

Great work, I've just finished my API but now i want to put a placeholder webpage for the ones who visits the root.

I've managed to send text fine but when i try to serve images or another binaries it crashes...

any idea on how to solve this? or how to bind this to a static server like node-static at the same port as restify?

thanks.

[mcavage]

Hi,

No this should definitely work (I do it). Here's a gist with a crude "serve up API docs from ./docs" set of routes from one of my projects. Not the most elegant (or error-resistant), but it should get you going: https://gist.github.com/1056404

Anyway, I'll leave this ticket open to fix the docs since you're the second or third person that's asked about this. Also, do you have a stack trace ? (if it's throwing TypeError because you're sending a buffer into res.send() et al, that's what it should do - if it's something else I'll clean it up).

m

[mcavage]

Closing this out.

[mullr]

I case anyone else comes here for the same reason, I had at least initial success with the following (using restify 1.1.1):

var static = require('node-static');

file = new static.Server('./public');
server.get(/^\/.*/, function(req, res, next) {
  file.serve(req, res, next);
});

[tlevine]

@mullr's is great; the included static server almost as good, but it doesn't serve the index as I would expect.

[jedahan]

@tlevine To server up index, I used the built in static server

server.get /\/*/, restify.serveStatic directory: './static'

and then added early on

server.pre (req, res, next) ->
  req.url = '/index.html' if req.url is '/'
  next()