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[twalker12]

Build a simple web server that handles any URL

@stuartpearman Can you take a look at this? It's hosted here and meets the following criteria:

• [x] At every URL, you respond with HTML, starting with an h1 element (though for this project, it doesn't have to be a complete HTML page)
• [x] When a user visits /, they see a greeting
• [x] When a user visits /random-joke, they see one of at least three knock-knock jokes (Math.random() may be useful 😉)
• [x] When a user visits /cuteness, they see a picture of a cute animal (I'm sure you can find one on the Internet 😛)
• [x] At every other URL, display an error page (if you want to make it funny, see these examples for inspiration)
• [x] The error page includes the requested URL, similar to Google's error page
• [x] Every page that is not the homepage (/) contains a link to it

[twalker12]

Can you take a look at this? I have error and I'm not sure what's wrong. I also document.write but I'm not sure if i'm supposed to use that or response.write because I saw both when I googled it. Can you tell me what I need to fix? Thanks

[stuartpearman]

Hey Tamesha,

The server won't run for a few reasons. First, some of your response.end functions are missing quotes.

When you have something like this:

response.end(<a href="...">...</a>)

it won't render unless you add quotes:

response.end('<a href="...">...</a>')

You also want to make sure that you're using response.end or response.write. document.write won't do anything in this case. If you do use response.write, you'll also have to call response.end() afterward, otherwise the page will look like it's trying to load something even after everything has already been displayed.

You also use a variable that hasn't been defined here: rnd. Not sure if you had a variable by that name before and removed it, but as a general rule, javascript will try to read anything that's not surrounded by quotes as code. Anything that is surrounded by quotes will be read as a string. Unless the code you're using is build into javascript, you'll have to create any variable you want to use.

[twalker12]

Ok I made the changes it still doesn't seem to be working.

[stuartpearman]

Ok, what else have you tried? Have you linted your code for errors?

[stuartpearman]

Hi @twalker12, don't spend any more time on this. I'm putting together an alternative assignment for you.

[stuartpearman]

Hi Tamesha, I just sent you an email! Make sure to check it as it contains details for an alternative assignment 🙂