Issues on fresh debian 12 installation (ReferenceError: Cannot access 'app' before initialization and redirect loop)

[Esquirish]

Hello, I just cloned the repo in a fresh Debian 12 container with node v21.7.3.

upon running npm run start i got the following error:

> gptportal@1.0.0 start
> node server.js

/home/user/GPTPortal/server.js:12
app.use(bodyParser.json({ limit: '50mb' }));
^

ReferenceError: Cannot access 'app' before initialization
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/giorgio/GPTPortal/server.js:12:1)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1368:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1426:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1205:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1021:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:142:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:28:49

Which i solved by rearranging some lines in the server.js file:

// importing required node packages
require('dotenv').config();
const express = require('express');
const axios = require('axios');
const basicAuth = require('express-basic-auth');
const fs = require('fs');
const { marked } = require('marked');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const app = express(); // Move this line up here
const download = require('image-downloader');
const cors = require('cors');
// Increase the limit for JSON bodies
app.use(bodyParser.json({ limit: '50mb' }));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ limit: '50mb', extended: true, parameterLimit: 50000 }));
app.use(express.json()); // for parsing application/json
app.use(express.static('public')); // Serves your static files from 'public' directory
app.use(cors());
const router = express.Router();
const { v4: uuidv4 } = require('uuid');

// openai
const OpenAI = require('openai').default;
// <other code remains the same>

However, when i try to access the application from the network: http://<local-server-ip>:3000/portal i get into a redirect loop to http://<local-server-ip>:3000/public/portal.html The page isn’t redirecting properly.

I'd appreciate some ideas on how to fix this, i'd love to try this app.

[Esquirish]

I solved the redirect loop by commenting this in the server.js file:

app.get('*', (req, res) => {
  res.redirect('/public/portal.html');
});

Now i can access http://:3000/portal, but i get a CORS error:

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://localhost:3000/message. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null)". 

When running locally, it works without producing the above error.