doubts on cherrypy

[ram_ganeshu]

Hi...all,
I am using cherrypy more than 2 months, now i am having strange
doubt, is it necessary we should use def index(), for our index
page....(exact name index(), we can't use other names?)?
One more is i want to call
directly a html file, that is navigation from one html file to another
html file, is it possible?(i want to call a static html file, from my
another html file) instead of writing a method to call a static
file...
please help me to find out....Thanks in
advance.....

[eugene.va...@gmail.com]

You could use serve_file in index to return a html file and the staticdir tool for all other html files you want to link to.

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[Tim Roberts]

ram_ganeshu wrote:
> I am using cherrypy more than 2 months, now i am having strange
> doubt, is it necessary we should use def index(), for our index
> page....(exact name index(), we can't use other names?)?

Why would you want to?

Here's the issue. Web requests need to end up with files, not
directories. When a web request arrives for a directory (like
"http://www.website.com/" or "http://www.website.com/folder/"), Apache
rewrites that to refer to "index.html". (The exact list is in your
Apache configuration files.) That's where this convention comes from.

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[GaneshPandi]

why...in the sense, my doubt is that...so it is fixed? we have to to use index () only, for index page...

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[Alan Pound]

Not fixed - it never was broken.

As described, this business about "index.html" is a bit of pandering to an old convention.

You can of course use any name as an initial or subsequent landing page.

Alan

[Tim Roberts]

GaneshPandi wrote:
> why...in the sense, my doubt is that...so it is fixed? we have to to
> use index () only, for index page...

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

"index" is just a convention. If you are using Apache as a front-end,
you can change the name of the default page using the DirectoryIndex
directive in your .htaccess file.

Also, remember that you aren't REQUIRED to support an index page. If
you know that every request to your CherryPy site will include a page
name, then you don't need index(). It all depends on what you need to
provide to your users.