Question

I am working on a node.js project and I need to do a connection with facebook.
I picked some facebook libraries. The last one that I liked was facebook-wrapper. Their example works perfect, but when I add express.static(__dirname + '/public'), I get an error: Cannot POST /. I tried with connect too, but I have the same error.

var server = express.createServer( 
  express.logger(), 
  express.bodyParser(), 
  express.cookieParser(), 
  express.session({ secret: 'secret123' }), 
  facebook.auth(options), 
  express.static(__dirname + '/public')
); 

Answer 1

The problem is that the static middleware doesn’t serve requests coming with POST method. You have to handle it in router explicitly, like this:

app.post('/', function(req, res) {
    res.sendfile(__dirname + '/public/index.html');
});

However there is a pull request to ease this: https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/pull/482.