Question

Answered/fixed:

Oops! 10000 points to jimw!

I’m trying to start a hobby project using Node. So I got going:

• installed Node 0.6.14
• copy-pasted the “hello world” program from their homepage in Eclipse
• saved as Main.js
• launched (node Main.js)
• opened http://127.0.0.1/1337

• and then I get this:

  Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1.

Code:

var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');

1. Firebug output:
   Aborted – 127.0.0.1
2. Windows Firewall disabled – same result.
3. Checked netstat:
   netstat -na | findstr 1337:
   TCP 127.0.0.1:1337 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
4. Checked that Node is running – it was.
5. Changed the port – same result.
6. Tried to find Node server logs – can’t seem to find any.

Any ideas? Right now I’m kind of baffled that “Hello world” isn’t working (!)

Answer 1

I don’t know how to close the question, so I’ll just answer myself.
jimw’s comment was the answer – I was trying to access the wrong port because I entered localhost/1337 instead of localhost:1337, I was just blind.
Thanks a lot 😉