serving static files with restify (node.js)

Question

I have the following code:

app.js

[...]

server.get(/\\/docs\\/public\\/?.*/, restify.serveStatic({
  directory: \'./public\'
}));

server.listen(1337, f         


        

Answer 1

1. The directory option is a prefix for your entire path.
2. Relative paths are not working correctly in later versions of Restify (I tested 2.6.0-3, 2.8.2-3 - and they all produce the NotAuthorized error)

The solution now becomes:

server.get(/\/docs\/public\/?.*/, restify.serveStatic({
    directory: __dirname
}));

And then your static files will need to be in ./docs/public.
(__dirname is a global variable that contains the absolute path of the script you are running)