SharePoint API getfilebyserverrelativeurl saying doesn't exist

Question

I have a sharepoint site, let's say http://sharepoint.company.com I'm trying to pull data from sharepoint.company.com/sites/one/sales/retail_locations.aspx

when I perform a get request on

http://sharepoint.company.com/_api/web/getfilebyserverrelativeurl('/sites/one/sales/retail_locations.aspx')

It keeps returning "The file /sites/one/sales/retail_locations.aspx does not exist"

I'm literally looking at the site in my other tab. It's driving me insane. Anyone have any idea what the problem is?

Answer 1

I think you are looking for a file at web level and your targeting site collection. So if you try to target the web level "/sites/one/sales" instead of site collection level "http://sharepoint.company.com" it would work.

the call to would be

http://sharepoint.company.com/sites/one/sales/_api/web/GetFileByServerRelativePath('/sites/one/sales/retail_locations.aspx')

Is there any particular reason to hit site collection level instead of web level.

All the best!!!