Node.js express POST 404ing
Solution 1
If you are posting to / as your log is saying that you are "POST / 404 5ms", you need to change the following line:
app.get('/', routes.index);
to
app.all('/', routes.index);
This will allow a GET or POST to that route. You can also just use app.post()
if you are only posting to that route. Hope this helps.
Docs here: http://expressjs.com/api.html#app.all
Solution 2
Make sure that 'form.attr("action")' is getting the proper URL. It seems that your form is posting to the index page rather than to '/test'. Maybe that should be changed to $('form').attr("action")
Solution 3
For me the problem was that I had my
app.post('/test', jsonParser, function (req, res) {
console.log(req);
res.send('Ok');
});
below this part added by express-generator to my app.js
// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
next(createError(404));
});
By changing the order in the file I resolved this problem.
LucienK
Updated on August 15, 2022Comments
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LucienK over 1 year
I've got a small node.js application using the express framework, but for some reason I can't get my application to respond to POST requests. In the server log I simply get "POST / 404 5ms", and I can't figure out why.
EDIT: To clarify - My problem is that app.post doesn't seem to be doing anything
EDIT 2: I somehow managed to fix this last night, but now I can't figure out at what point i fixed it.
Node.js server code:
var express = require('express') , routes = require('./routes') , user = require('./routes/user') , http = require('http') , path = require('path'); var app = express(); // all environments app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000); app.set('views', __dirname + '/views'); app.set('view engine', 'jade'); app.use(express.favicon()); app.use(express.logger('dev')); app.use(express.bodyParser()); app.use(express.methodOverride()); app.use(express.cookieParser('chocolatechip')); app.use(express.session()); app.use(app.router); app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public'))); // development only if ('development' == app.get('env')) { app.use(express.errorHandler()); } //pages //Landing page app.get('/', routes.index); app.post('/test',function(req,res){ console.log(req.body); res.send("received post"); }); //return list containing users //app.post('/users', user.list); //return requested user app.get('/users/:id', user.get); //app.post('/users/login', user.login); //server http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){ console.log('Server listening on port ' + app.get('port')); });
On the actual webpage, I've got the following javascript code:
var login = $('#login'); var page = $('#page'); var register = $('#register'); var userField = login.find('.user'); var passField = login.find('.pass'); var confPassField = login.find('.confpass'); var form = $('.logform'); $('#formbutton').on('click',function(){ if(register.hasClass('hidden')){ login.addClass('hidden'); confPassField.val(''); var logDat = JSON.stringify(form.serializeArray); userField.val(''); passField.val(''); page.html("Login form submitted"); $.post( form.attr("action"), {test:"test"}, function(data){ alert("Response: "+data) } ); }