golang: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

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I am new to golang and currently following this tutorial and source code here - http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/part2.go

After building this file, I am getting 

calvin$ ./mywebwiki2 
2012/07/23 17:12:59 http: panic serving [::1]:58820: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
/usr/local/go/src/pkg/net/http/server.go:576 (0x3f202)
    _func_003: buf.Write(debug.Stack())
/private/tmp/bindist454984655/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:1443 (0x10c79)
/private/tmp/bindist454984655/go/src/pkg/runtime/runtime.c:128 (0x11745)
/private/tmp/bindist454984655/go/src/pkg/runtime/thread_darwin.c:418 (0x148b5)
/Users/calvin/work/gowiki/mywebwiki2.go:33 (0x2248)
    viewHandler: fmt.Fprintf(w, "<h1>%s</h1><div>%s</div>", p.Title, p.Body)
/usr/local/go/src/pkg/net/http/server.go:690 (0x331ae)
    HandlerFunc.ServeHTTP: f(w, r)
/usr/local/go/src/pkg/net/http/server.go:926 (0x34030)
    (*ServeMux).ServeHTTP: mux.handler(r).ServeHTTP(w, r)
/usr/local/go/src/pkg/net/http/server.go:656 (0x32fc1)
    (*conn).serve: handler.ServeHTTP(w, w.req)
/private/tmp/bindist454984655/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:271 (0xed7f)
2012/07/23 17:12:59 http: panic serving [::1]:58821: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

Any idea what I did wrong to be causing this apparent memory corruption?

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2 Answers

In the tutorial, you created the file TestPage previously. Which is the page you should be navigating to when you first build the server. In the tutorial, they have you navigate to view/test instead of view/TestPage as you should which is what creates the confusion.

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