Express serving static asset files relative to route instead of absolute
In express, I have the following route:
app.get('/story/:username', function(req, res){
res.render('dashboard.ejs');
});
And before that, I serve any static files located in /public
:
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
Now I figured this was serving the root directory so that when I visited the path http://localhost:8080/story/user17
it could still pull my static files like css/main.css
from http://localhost:8080/css/main.css
. Instead, when I tried to load the page and checked the console, I saw this error all the time:
GET http://localhost:8080/story/css/main.css (404)
for all my static files. Why is it trying to load all my static files from the relative directory instead of the absolute root and how to fix it?
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