localhost replies with CANNOT GET/-CodePudding

This is my code

const express = require('express');
const app = express();

const bodyparser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyparser.urlencoded({extended: false}));
app.use(bodyparser.json());

const cors = require('cors');
app.use(cors());

app.use(express.static('website'));

const port = 8000;
const server = app.listen(port, () => {
    console.log('the server is up and running');
    console.log(`in a localhost ${port}`);
})

and i linked it to html page which has the code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en"> 
    
    
    <head>
        
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
        
        <title> Hello World!</title>
        
        
        
        <script src='L2Server.js' >  </script>

    </head>

    <body>

<p>Hi!</p>



<script src='L2Server.js' ></script>
    </body>

  





</html>

and when I run the code in the terminal it show that the server is up and running then when I open the localhost in the browser it displays a message with the following "CANNOT GET/" and I tried almost everything to solve this problem but i don't know what is the matter.

CodePudding user response：

You need to define a route like

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  // set response here
});

or provide static content from a folder

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

In your case place your html code in ./public/index.html and provide it as static content.

CodePudding user response：

Add something like this:

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.send('website');
});

where 'website' is the name of your html