http-server with localhost:3000 gives ERR_INVALID_REDIRECT

Question

I have installed http-server using the following command:

npm i -g http-server

Upon running the server I get the response saying Running on 127.0.0.1:8080

My call looks like this:

http-server -a 0.0.0.0 -c-1

If I go to 127.0.0.1:8080 or 10.1.1.72:8080 I get:

This page is not working.

127.0.0.1:8080 sent an invalid response

ERR_INVALID_REDIRECT

I have googled and searched everywhere with no answer as to what actually solves this. I'm not using XAMPP or IIS just a blank node server.

Node.js: 11.12.0

npm: 6.7.0

OS: Windows 10

I have checked my host files, there is nothing relevant there. I have no idea what would be causing this. I don't use .htaccess files or Web.config files either.

Notes

If I go to localhost:8080/index.html I can get to my app. This isn't supposed to work like that though.

Answer 1

Try downgrading the http-server version as the latest version (0.10.0 and 0.11.0) is causing issue due to ecstatic (3.3.2).

Try uninstalling the current http-server version and then try to install 0.9.0 or older version

Uninstall

 npm uninstall -g http-server

Install

npm install [email protected]

Answer 2

This is still an open issue with http-server, which is supposedly caused by the latest version of one http-server's dependencies called ecstatic:

https://github.com/http-party/http-server/issues/525

There are three workarounds for this at the point:

1. Point the browser to localhost:8080/index.html instead of just http://localhost:8080.

2. Downgrade your http-server version to 0.9 from 10.0

   npm uninstall -g http-server
   npm install [email protected]

3. Open package.json file under the http-server module and downgrade ecstatic dependency
   to 3.3.1 (found under 'dependencies' key).

Answer 3

I'm having the exact same problem. Just installed both node and http-server globally. run http-server and it gives me the following error when accessing localhost:8080:

"ERR_INVALID_REDIRECT"

If I try to access the index.html page, it works. It doesn't even show directories listing, even with -d in the command line.

I got something, though: installing an older version of http-server and it loads the index.html automagically :)

This was the command/version: npm install -g [email protected] Anything newer (0.9.0+) and it breaks again.

Edit:

Even then, it will only work on sub-folders, not on the root. For example:

http://localhost:8080/mypage/ will load index.html automatically.

http://localhost:8080/ won't