All pages return the same content with OVH Cloud Hosting

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I've recently completed a Node.js website locally, which works fine, though I have noticed some issues when uploading the website online to OVH Cloud Web Hosting. All pages, even those that should not exist, return the contents of the homepage.

I'm running Express with Node.js, and the file structure was created with express-generator. My app.js file contains the following:

var createError = require('http-errors');
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var logger = require('morgan');
var expressHbs = require('express-handlebars');
var Handlebars     = require('handlebars');
var HandlebarsIntl = require('handlebars-intl');
var mongoose = require('mongoose');

var indexRouter = require('./routes/index');
var blogRouter = require('./routes/blog');
var blogItemRouter = require('./routes/blog-item');
var portfolioRouter = require('./routes/portfolio');
var contactRouter = require('./routes/contact');
var iBlogPostsRouter = require('./routes/i/blog-posts');
var iContactRouter = require('./routes/i/contact');
var iPortfolioItemsRouter = require('./routes/i/portfolio-items');
var portfolioItemRouter = require('./routes/portfolio-item');

HandlebarsIntl.registerWith(Handlebars);

var app = express();

// view engine setup
app.engine('.hbs', expressHbs({defaultLayout: 'layout', extname: '.hbs'}));
app.set('view engine', '.hbs');
app.disable('etag');

app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

app.use('/', indexRouter);
app.use('/blog', blogRouter);
app.use('/blog/:title', blogItemRouter);
app.use('/portfolio', portfolioRouter);
app.use('/contact', contactRouter);
app.use('/i/blog-posts', iBlogPostsRouter);
app.use('/i/contact', iContactRouter);
app.use('/i/portfolio-items', iPortfolioItemsRouter);
app.use('/portfolio/:title', portfolioItemRouter);

// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    next(createError(404));
});

// error handler
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
    res.status(err.status || 500);
    res.render('error', {title: err.status + ' ' + err.message});
});

module.exports = app;

All of the routers have the same code, except render a different template. Here is an example of the indexRouter:

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();

/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
  res.render('index', { title: 'About', about: true });
});

module.exports = router;

The issue is that every page, even my .js and .css files, returns the HTML from whatever is in the app.use('/' ...) router. The console returns the following error:

Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type text/html: "https://xxx.co.uk/core/styles/m.css".

I experimented with this by changing the homepage to be my contact page, which has resulted in every URL returning the contact page. My CSS and JavaScript are in a public folder. The only thing that I can think of is that the '/' route is somehow being used for every single request, but it doesn't make any sense to me why this could be happening.

express node.js
2 Answers

Instead of using app.use('/<route>', <router>) in your project, try replacing it with the corresponding express statements, e.g,

router.<route_method>('/<route>', function(req, res, next){
  // code
});

See if it works fine or not.

user_63099790

The reason your site is defaulting to the '/' route is because you haven't properly set up your routes. Each router module needs to know what is getting exported. Your indexRouter file, for example, needs to look like this:

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router;

router.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.render('index', { title: 'About', about: true });
});

module.exports = router;   <<----

In addition, if the app.js you're showing as of 09/04/2018 06:36 is the complete app.js, you're missing a lot. You have a minimized CSS as your first stylesheet, which actually contains the rendered index.html.

user_2352880
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