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copied!<p>This answer is for static pages and files since static urls is not really a problem with node.js, and it's covered here at the <a href="http://expressjs.com/guide.html" rel="nofollow">express js guide</a>.</p> <p>Using only node.js without any framework is a pretty bad idea if you're going to build a webapp. However, there are lots of good webframeworks for node.js that makes life a lot easier. If you've got <a href="https://github.com/isaacs/npm" rel="nofollow">NPM</a> installed they are really easy to include too.</p> <p>I've only got experience with <a href="http://expressjs.com/" rel="nofollow">express.js</a> but it makes it really easy to create webapps if you've got any previous experience with any MVC type web-framework.</p> <p>From my experience it's true that there is no way to serve static pages built in to node.js. However, building a controller that can serve static pages it really simple.</p> <p>Here is an example using express.js.</p> <p><strong>server.js</strong> </p> <pre><code>... app.get('/content/*', controllers.content.getfile); ... </code></pre> <p>This creates a route that captures every url going to the <code>content</code> directory and directs it to the action getfile in the content controller i.e. www.yourdomain.com/content/style.css</p> <p><strong>controllers.js</strong></p> <pre><code>... exports.content = { getfile : function(req,res){ var uri = url.parse(req.url).pathname; var filename = path.join(process.cwd(), uri); path.exists(filename, function(exists){ if(!exists){ res.writeHead(404, {"Content-Type" : "text/plain"}); res.write("Content not found"); res.end(); return; } fs.readFile(filename, "binary", function(err, file){ res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type' : mime.lookup(filename) }); res.write(file, "binary"); res.end(); }); }); } } ... </code></pre> <p>This action getfile in the content controller looks for the file specified in the URL in the content directory and serves it up to the client. It <code>requires</code> the mime library that you can get with NPM.</p> <p>This enables the use of static files in the /content/ folder. If you'd like to you could make the route catch every non caught URL and look for a static file from the route up. However you'd have to set up some kind of filter so that you can't just access server.js file.</p>

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