issue on a clean sails.js during sails lift

[webmasterslava]

SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /^\admin(.*)/?$/: Unmatched ')'

[konstantinzolotarev]

@webmasterslava what version of node.js and sails do you use ?

[zabaat]

I was having this problem on windows 10, sails 0.12.1, node 5.9.0
I tracked it down to
bindResView.js

// Bind to /admin/*
    sails.router.bind(path.join(sails.config.adminpanel.routePrefix, '*'), bindResFunctions);

in the sails.router.bind function the path gets passed as \admin* while the path before that gets passed as /admin/
I fixed by adding an

if(options.defaultVerb.path === "\\admin\\*") options.defaultVerb.path = "/admin/*"

this of course is not a fix, but should shed some light on what we were experiencing

[SrgGroot]

@zabaat I'm having this same issue. How exactly did you apply that last line of code to fix your issue? I have been having a lot of trouble opening this sails project for some reason @.@

To be clear this is the line that i'm confused about. How and where did you add it exactly?

if(options.defaultVerb.path === "\\admin\\*") options.defaultVerb.path = "/admin/*"

[heitara]

@zabaat the problem is related to the way path works on windows. It uses different separator \ instead /.
The correct fix is to replace the path function with something suitable for URLs.