gulp-webserver: Cannot GET html & gulp.src location ignored.

This is my gulp webserver task:

gulp   = require "gulp"
$      = do require "gulp-load-plugins"
gulp.task "webserver", ->
  gulp.src "dist"
    .pipe $.webserver(
      directoryListing : true
      host             : "0.0.0.0"
      port             : 9000
    )

When i open up http://127.0.0.1:9000/ it ignores the the gulp.src location i’ve set and uses the root of the folder. But i can see files being listed: listing_directory__

If i click into a index.html for example inside the dist folder. i get this message on the page. Cannot GET /dist/index.html

About this issue

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State: open
Created 10 years ago
Comments: 25 (1 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Using gulp.src('./') solved my problem about getting files content.

+47

cedeber on Mar 24, 2015

Removed directoryListing completely and it now opens index.html automatically.

gulp.src("build")
    .pipe(webserver({
        livereload: true,
        fallback: "index.html",
        port: 8080,
        open: true
    }));

+20

itsmhuang on Aug 2, 2016

I fixed this issue with the following gulp task.

gulp.task 'webserver', ->
  gulp.src 'public'
    .pipe webserver(
      fallback:   'index.html' # gulp-webserver needs this for html5
      livereload: true
      open:       true
      directoryListing:
        enable: true
        path:   'public'
      )

scottyantipa on Jun 5, 2015

#5 solve this problem. Using this setting:

directoryListing: {
    enable:true,
    path: 'app'
}

animabear on Apr 4, 2015

related to #14. Just removing the directoryListing option fix the root for me.

MoOx on Nov 11, 2014

As @cedriceberhardt mentioned, using gulp.src('./') works. Apparently, this points to root rather than gulp.src('root')

mii9000 on Aug 5, 2015

> gulp.src('./app')
>     .pipe(server({
>         open: true,
>         fallback: 'index.html',
>         livereload: true,
>         directoryListing: {
>                 enable: true,
>                 path: './app'
> }

now this working for me except one problem - index.html doesn’t open automaticly

scoutrul on Jan 30, 2016

Note to consider… when you set directoryListing: true renders only the root directory, regardless of the src path you specify in gulp.src('whateverPathYouChoose') so I had to specify an object to make it work properly and render my static files correctly.

something like this:

directoryListing: {
        enable: true,
        path: 'example'
},

You may want to include that in the readme, and provide a better explanation.

bialikover on Aug 2, 2015

I ran into this issue working on my second or third gulp project on my machine. The last two projects I’ve started exhibit this issue, while the very first one still works. I’ve even tried copy pasting in the code and I still get the issue of the 404 and the src being the root of my projects. Changing ports doesn’t make it work.

However, as @hinok mentioned, just running the webserver task standalone does work

thescientist13 on May 3, 2015

We have exactly the same problem! It’s weird cause when I run only one task:

gulp webserver

The server works, but with multiple tasks is broken. 0.5.0 works like a charm.

hinok on Aug 22, 2014