Running node.js code just displays a node identifier

Question

I have the following code in a file called server.js.

var http = require(\'http\');

http.createServer(function (request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200,          


        

Answer 1

This is old, but I ran into this same problem. Exact same message (with my machine name of course). The issue was that there was another node executable on the path, in C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SharedComponents\PEC\bin. I'm on a windows machine, so running where node showed the two conflicting "node" executables in the path.

To fix the problem, I just removed the CA directory from the PATH environment variable.