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Mongodb – Serving Static file publically in nodejs :- Not Working

In my nodejs server file, I am trying to server static folder the code goes as below :-

server.js

const express = require("express");
const app = express();
require("dotenv").config();
const cookieParser = require("cookie-parser");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
const { connectDB } = require("./config/connectDB");
connectDB();
const upload = require("./routes/uploadsFile");
const user = require("./routes/user");
const path = require("path");

app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.json("content-type", "application/json"));

const publicFolder = path.join(__dirname, "../uploads");
console.log(publicFolder);
app.use(express.static(publicFolder));

app.use("/api/v1/upload", upload);
app.use("/api/v1/user", user);

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3030;
app.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`Server Started Listening On PORT ${PORT}`);
});

The folder structures goes below :-

This is the ss of my folder structure

The same error I am getting as everyone

Cannot GET /uploads/image/actual-size/banner-Image-1.jpg

Can someone please help me. I have gone through many problem already answered like this on Stackoverflow, but unable to get the proper solution.

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    I got the solution of the problem.

    I was calling the GET URL by

    localhost:${port}/uploads/image/actual-size/image.jpg

    But I had to call like this because uploads folder is being server by default

    localhost:${port}/image/actual-size/image.jpg

  2. 0

    You defined uploads to be the root directory for serving static files which means the request paths must not start with /uploads. In your example above change the path to:

    /image/actual-size/banner-Image-1.jpg

    From the docs:

    Express looks up the files relative to the static directory, so the
    name of the static directory is not part of the URL.

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