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"Error: invalid argument" when starting server with 2.1.0-beta.3

See original GitHub issue

I’m submitting a bug report

webpack and webpack-dev-server version: webpack: 2.1.0-beta.21 webpack-dev-server: 2.1.0-beta.3

Please tell us about your environment: OSX 10.11.6

Current behavior:

When running the webpack-dev-server, I get this error:

webpack-dev-server --hot --progress --history-api-fallback --config webpack/webpack.dev.config.js --content-base html/

 http://localhost:8080/
webpack result is served from /build/
content is served from /Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/html
404s will fallback to /index.html
webpack: wait until bundle finished: /build/app.js

/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/webpack-dev-middleware/middleware.js:106
            if(err) throw err;
                    ^
Error: invalid argument
    at pathToArray (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/memory-fs/lib/MemoryFileSystem.js:44:10)
    at MemoryFileSystem.mkdirpSync (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/memory-fs/lib/MemoryFileSystem.js:139:13)
    at MemoryFileSystem.(anonymous function) [as mkdirp] (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/memory-fs/lib/MemoryFileSystem.js:279:34)
    at Compiler.<anonymous> (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:266:25)
    at Compiler.applyPluginsAsync (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/tapable/lib/Tapable.js:73:70)
    at Compiler.emitAssets (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:263:7)
    at Watching.onCompiled (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:55:18)
    at /Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:442:12
    at next (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/tapable/lib/Tapable.js:81:11)
    at Compiler.<anonymous> (/Users/evgueni.naverniouk/Git/ux/node_modules/webpack/lib/CachePlugin.js:61:4)

Expected/desired behavior:

Server should not fail to start.

This issue was not happening with 2.1.0-beta.0. Only started happening after upgrading to 2.1.0-beta.3

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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EvHauscommented, Sep 7, 2016

Sorry, I take back my previous statement. Changing output.path to / does indeed make the issue go away. My original output.path was set to ./html/build/.

Here is a minimal webpack.config.js that can be used to reproduce the issue:

module.exports = {
    entry: {
        app: ['./html/js/menu.js']
    },
    module: {
        loaders: [
            {test: /\.js$/, loader: 'babel'}
        ]
    },
    output: {
        path: './html/build/',
        publicPath: '/build/',
        filename: '[name].js'
    }
};

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EvHauscommented, Sep 7, 2016

Confirmed. Using an absolute path resolves the issue. Thank you.

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