Why is my Node.js website not finding pages in public folder?

Question

I am quite new to web development with node.js . I have an issue where loading one of my pages is giving the following error in my browser:

Cannot GET /public/pages/terms-and-conditions.html

The file structure looks like the following:

• index.html
• index.js
• public/
  • pages/
    • terms-and-conditions.html

My index.js file looks like:

const express = require('express');
var path = require('path')
const app = new express();
var port = process.env.PORT || 3000;

app.get('/', function(request, response){
    response.sendFile('./index.html',{ root: __dirname });
});
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

app.listen(port, () => console.log(`listening on port 3000!`));

My button that directs them to terms-and-conditions is located in the index.html file and does the following:

<li><a href="/public/pages/terms-and-conditions.html">Terms &amp; Conditions</a></li>

I have tried a many different paths to my file but must be missing something obvious.

SOLVED:

I needed to keep the path like follows:

<li><a href="pages/terms-and-conditions.html">Terms &amp; Conditions</a></li>

Answer 1

The "/public/pages/terms-and-conditions.html" is indicating that this is an absolute path.

Try "./public/pages/terms-and-conditions.html".