How do I serve a page over https using expressjs? - node.js

Question

I'm new to nodejs/expressjs. Could someone please explain how to to serve a page over https?
I have to ask this question another way, stackoverflow is complaining that my post is mainly code?
Here is the error dump:
app.get('/', function(request, response) {
^
TypeError: Object # has no method 'get' at Object.
(/home/john/startup/docm/w2.js:21:5) at Module._compile
(module.js:456:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js
(module.js:474:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at
Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12) at Function.Module.runMain
(module.js:497:10) at startup (node.js:119:16) at node.js:901:3
And here is the code:
var express = require('express');
var fs = require('fs');
var app = express();
var options = {
ca: fs.readFileSync('csr.pem'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem'),
key: fs.readFileSync('key.pem')
};
var server = require('https').createServer(options);
var portNo = 8889;
var app = server.listen(portNo, function() {
console.log((new Date()) + " Server is listening on port " + 8888);
});
app.get('/', function(request, response) {
app.use(express.static(__dirname));
console.log('app.get slash');
var buf = new Buffer(fs.readFileSync('index1.html'), 'utf-8');
response.send(buf.toString('utf-8'));
});
I'm new to nodejs/expressjs. Could someone please explain how to to serve a page over https?

Answer 1

The problem with your application is that you're overriding your Express instance with your HTTPS instance. This is how it is properly done:
var fs = require('fs');
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var https = require('https');
var options = {
ca: fs.readFileSync('csr.pem'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem'),
key: fs.readFileSync('key.pem')
};
var server = https.createServer(options, app);
server.listen(443, function() {
console.log((new Date()) + ' Server is listening on port 443');
});
app.use(express.static(__dirname));
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
console.log('app.get slash');
var file = fs.readFileSync('index1.html', {encoding: 'utf8'});
res.send(file);
});
These were the errors in your code:
Instead of passing Express to HTTPS you overwrote Express with the HTTPS instance.
You did not pass your Express application to your HTTPS instance.
The Express static() middleware should be served outside of specific request handlers.
You passed a buffer to another buffer to set its encoding although readFileSync() already has an encoding option.