Hello, all. I am trying to deploy a site using Express and EJS templating. I am having slight trouble getting Express to render the routes appropriately. It works as expected both when I run the server using node and when I run it using netlify dev locally. My views are laid out as such:
/views/
– index.ejs
– template.ejs
– /auth/
---- signin.ejs
---- signup.ejs
I try to render these routes using res.render("auth/signin"). Netlify online gives me the error:
Error: Failed to lookup view in views directory “/var/task/views”
When I move the ejs files out of /auth/ and into /views/ it all works again, granted I updated my res.render() calls as well.
Why is Netlify online not finding the subdirectory in my views folder?
Here are some useful snippets:
server.js
app.set(“view engine”, “ejs”);
app.set(“views”, “views”);
netlify.toml
[functions]
external_node_modules = [“connect-mongo”, “body-parser”, “dotenv”, “ejs”, “express”, “express-ejs-layouts”, “express-session”, “mongoose”, “morgan”, “serverless-http”]
node_bundler = “esbuild”
included_files = [“page_views/", "dist/”]
[[redirects]]
force = true
from = “/*”
status = 200
to = “/.netlify/functions/server/:splat”