Faking the '/' directory for a local site

Question

I'm developing a web application on my local linux machine in a directory inside my home folder.

~/gits/myApp/

When I need to reference modules directories in my code I'd like to prepend the locations like so /model/users

The problem arises that my web software (node.js) understandingly looks at the root of my linux machine.

Is there a way to configure the folder my web app is in to think its at the root?

Answer 1

If you remove the slash in the beginning of the location string, it should look to the directory it's running from.

Thus

model/users

Should work