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I have a node.js server running with less-middleware. From my understanding, it compiles on the fly and places the css file in the destination/same(if not specified) folder.
My problem is I'm getting a 404 error on the get request for the css file:
Err: GET http://webserver/public/less/blog-reset.css 404 (Not Found)
Here is what I'm working with:
web.js
//requiring dependencies
var express = require("express");
var logfmt = require("logfmt");
var lessMiddleware = require('less-middleware');
var hogan = require('hogan-express');
var path = require('path');
//all environments
var app = module.exports = express();
var port = Number(process.env.PORT || 5000);
app.use(logfmt.requestLogger());
app.use(lessMiddleware(path.join(__dirname,'public')));
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname,'public')));
app.set('layout',path.join(__dirname,'src','views','blog-layout'));
app.enable('view cache');
app.engine('.html',hogan);
//page routing called after env loads
require('./src/router');
//listening port
app.listen(port, function() {
console.log("Listening on " + port);
});
blog-layout.html
<head>
<title>EpiBlog</title>
<link href='/public/less/blog-reset.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
</head>
<body>
{{{yield}}}
</body>
directory layout
ROOT
public
less
src
web.js
Versions
What I've tried:
app.use(lessMiddleware)({ src: __dirname + '/public' })); (apparently the old way of doing it)app.use(lessMiddleware(path.join(__dirname,'public','less')));
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname,'public'))); from web.js to router.jsthis:
app.use(lessMiddleware(path.join(__dirname, 'source', 'less'), {
dest: path.join(__dirname, 'public')
}));
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the problem was:
<link href='/public/less/blog-reset.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
should have been:
<link href='/less/blog-reset.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
i read that:
link(rel='stylesheet', type='text/css', href='css/styles.css')
was paired with directory structure:
myapp
+-public
+-css
+-styles.less
which led me to believe that this call:
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname,'public')));
makes the request assume /public/ is the parent so i was being redundant calling /public/less/blog-reset.css
reference was found here: express.js less compiler: can not get work
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