Node.js - fs.stat throws ENOENT The operation completed successfully

Question

I'm trying to follow episode 3 of nodetuts.com. Also, I'm using the newest (unstable) version of node - node.exe, version 0.5.2. Here is my code, I've been beating my head against a wall with this error practically all day. Is it just a windows thing?

var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');

var file_path = __dirname + '\\me.jpg';
console.log('serving: '+file_path);
fs.stat(file_path, function(err, stat){

    if (err) throw err;

    http.createServer(function(request,response){

        response.writeHead(200, {
        'Content-Type':'image/jpeg'
        });

        fs.readFile(file_path, function(err, file_content){

            response.write(file_content);
            response.end();
        });

    }).listen(8000);
})

Thank you!

Answer 1

The 0.5.x is buggy on Windows. You can do

fs.readFile(__dirname + '/file.txt', callback);

I believe 0.6 will fix these problems. :)