Express error 500 Error: Failed to lookup view "/app/views/admin/users"

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I am using expressjs, yeoman and angular. Yeoman has been used to setup my client side scaffolding So the structure:

root folder app --> styles --> views -->admin login.html --> scripts routes node_modules server.js

My server.js is on the root level. I am using angularjs to render but have used authentication on server side to check user.

When it uses the angularjs routes it fine on first load. If i then refresh the browser with the url it returns the error:

Express 500 Error: Failed to lookup view "/app/views/admin/users" at Function.app.render (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:493:17) at ServerResponse.res.render (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:798:7) at /Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/server.js:148:9 at callbacks (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:164:37) at param (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:138:11) at pass (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:145:5) at Router._dispatch (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:173:5) at Object.router (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:33:10) at Context.next (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/express/node_modules/connect/lib/proto.js:193:15) at Context.actions.pass (/Users/tej/Projects/ecokidsproject/node_modules/passport/lib/passport/context/http/actions.js:77:8)

config is:

     app.configure(function(){
        app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 8500);

    app.set('view engine', 'jade');
    app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '../app')));
    app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/app/views')));
    app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/app/views/admin')));

    app.use(express.favicon());
    app.use(express.logger('dev'));
    app.use(express.json());
    app.use(express.urlencoded());



    // app setup for authentication
    app.use(express.bodyParser());
    app.use(express.cookieParser());
    app.use(express.session({ secret: 'ecoSecret' }));
    app.use(express.methodOverride());
    // Initialize Passport!  Also use passport.session() middleware, to support
    // persistent login sessions (recommended).
    //app.use(flash());
    app.use(passport.initialize());
    app.use(passport.session());
    app.use(app.router);

});

app.get('/admin', function(req, res){
    console.log('get admin' + __dirname + '/app/views/admin/login.html');
    res.render('/app/views/admin/users');

});

please post your route provider configuration in your app module. — michael, Jan 17 '14 at 16:34
i mean the angular js part. is there something in it that configures the html5 mode? — michael, Jan 17 '14 at 19:36
yes it uses the locationprovider to set the htmlmode5 to true — tjhack, Jan 17 '14 at 21:37
ok! if you use the html5 mode you have to make sure that your server can rewrite any url to serve your index.html, where your html5 mode is configured. please have a look at this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16579404/url-rewriting-with-expressjs — michael, Jan 17 '14 at 21:40
cheers the only reason I used html5 mode was to remove the hash appearing in the url. e.g localhost/#/admin. but take it this is the incorrect use. — tjhack, Jan 17 '14 at 22:18

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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I used this post and it worked a treat.

URL Rewriting with ExpressJS

Index.html needs to be rendered as this contains all include files. Therefore it will let angularjs routeprovider know what to render.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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Express error 500 Error: Failed to lookup view "/app/views/admin/users"

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