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    copied!<p>I'm following along with: <a href="http://www.nodebeginner.org/#serving-something-useful" rel="noreferrer">The Node Beginner Book</a></p> <p>After testing with the code from another SO post:</p> <pre><code>var Fs = require('fs'); var dirs = ['tmp']; var index; var stats; for (index = 0; index &lt; dirs.length; ++index) { try { stats = Fs.lstatSync(dirs[index]); console.log(dirs[index] + ": is a directory? " + stats.isDirectory()); } catch (e) { console.log(dirs[index] + ": " + e); } } </code></pre> <p>The error persist:</p> <blockquote> <p>Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'tmp'</p> </blockquote> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/RnBbE.png" alt="app dir structure"></p> <p>The permissions on tmp are 777.</p> <p><strong>requestHandlers.js</strong></p> <pre><code>var querystring = require("querystring"), fs = require("fs"); function start(response, postData) { console.log("Request handler 'start' was called."); var body = '&lt;html&gt;'+ '&lt;head&gt;'+ '&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" '+ 'content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;'+ '&lt;style&gt;input{display: block; margin: 1em 0;}&lt;/style&gt;'+ '&lt;/head&gt;'+ '&lt;body&gt;'+ '&lt;form action="/upload" method="post"&gt;'+ '&lt;textarea name="text" rows="20" cols="60"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;'+ '&lt;input type="submit" value="Submit text" /&gt;'+ '&lt;/form&gt;'+ '&lt;/body&gt;'+ '&lt;/html&gt;'; response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/html"}); response.write(body); response.end(); } function upload(response, postData) { console.log("Request handler 'upload' was called."); response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"}); response.write("You've sent the text: "+ querystring.parse(postData).text); response.end(); } function show(response, postData) { console.log("Request handler 'show' was called."); fs.readFile("/tmp/test.jpg", "binary", function(error, file) { if(error) { response.writeHead(500, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"}); response.write(error + "\n"); response.end(); } else { response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "image/jpg"}); response.write(file, "binary"); response.end(); } }); } exports.start = start; exports.upload = upload; exports.show = show; </code></pre> <p><strong>Index.js</strong></p> <pre><code>var server = require("./server"); var router = require("./router"); var requestHandlers = require("./requestHandlers"); var handle = {} handle["/"] = requestHandlers.start; handle["/start"] = requestHandlers.start; handle["/upload"] = requestHandlers.upload; handle["/show"] = requestHandlers.show; server.start(router.route, handle); </code></pre> <p>A little stumped, any help appreciated.</p>
 

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