Question

So I download Windows binaries from node’s site and installed on my Windows 7 machine which is installed fine, when I do:

node --version

It correctly displays its version: v0.6.7

Here is the hello world program:

// app.js
var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8000, "127.0.0.1");

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/');

And when I do:

node app.js

I get the response fine:

Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

However, when I browser the URL http://127.0.0.1:8000, the page keeps on running (on status bar it says waiting for 127.0.0.1...).

Can anybody help me how to make it to output Hello World ?

Answer 1

This is what I get with curl:

$ curl -vv localhost:8000

* About to connect() to localhost port 8000 (#0)
*   Trying ::1... Connection refused
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8000 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
> Host: localhost:8000
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Connection: keep-alive
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< 
Hello World
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
* Closing connection #0

nothing wrong with it. Try updating node to the latest stable version (but I don’t see how it can help) and be sure any process except node is owning the tcp port 8000.