externally hosted static files

[Matt Bodman]

Hi, I need help troubleshooting something.  I currently host my static files within my Pyramid repo, but I want to add more files and host them on S3.  I have tried just about every permutation of the static view config I can think of, but just can't get it to work.

If the sub url is `/static` and the files are hosted at `http://bla.s3`, what do I pass the `add_static_view` method?

Any clues would be appreciated!

[Steve Piercy]

add_static_view accepts a fully-qualified URL as the first argument.

https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/api/config.html#pyramid.config.Configurator.add_static_view

However for files that are not in your repo/package, I would suggest you not use add_static_view. Instead create an external route to generate URLs that you add into your templates.

https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/narr/urldispatch.html#external-routes

This is a kind of hand-wavy suggestion. I'm sure someone else who uses a CDN in their app has more details or a better technique.

--steve

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[Matt Bodman]

Thanks Steve, hadn't thought of that.  I'll take your hand-wavy suggestion and do some half-arsed testing.

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[Jonathan Vanasco]

This is a very simplified version of my approach:

I typically handle this by injecting a `cdn` variable into the default rendering environment, and then just having the templates reference 

    href="${cdn}/path/to/file"

I specify the `cdn` var in the `.ini` file for the application. on startup, i load it into the registry and a few other places.

On some projects, I have routine that preprocesses the templates for a handful of "global" variables.