I am new to node js. I am following the link. But this always executing the response.writeHead(404); So I can't able to view the index.html http://thecodinghumanist.com/blog/archives/2011/5/6/serving-static-files-from-node-js

This is my web server node js code.

var http = require('http'); var path = require('path'); var fs = require('fs'); http.createServer(function (request, response) { console.log('request starting...'); var filePath = "."+request.url; if (filePath == './') filePath = '/index.html'; else console.log(request.url); var extname = path.extname(filePath); var contentType = 'text/html'; switch (extname) { case '.js': contentType = 'text/javascript'; break; case '.css': contentType = 'text/css'; break; } fs.exists( filePath, function (exists) { console.log(filePath); if (exists) { fs.readFile(filePath, function (error, content) { if (error) { console.log(error); response.writeHead(500); response.end(); } else { response.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' }); response.end(content, 'utf-8'); } }); } else { response.writeHead(404); response.end(); } }); }).listen(8125); 

My questions.

1. This is not showing the index.html.
2. How can i send response or html file based different requests ? eg: http://localhost:8125 -> index.html http://localhost:8125/firstpage.html -> firstpage.html
3. Do we need to put the html files in the same directory which contains server.js (web server) ?

I also tried the same in cloud9 ide.

I found a similar issue in SO. but I did n't get a clear idea how to fix it. Node.js - Socket.io client file not being served by basic node web server Thanks in advance.