Problems getting started with static files

Dave Harper

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Apr 7, 2019, 1:47:13 PM4/7/19

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I've been working my way through the documentation but if I'm going to be able to use Bottle, I need to be able to serve up static files. So far, nothing I've tried has been successful so I've reduced everything down the the simplest example I can come up with. I'm running Linux Mint and have a directory called /home/dave/test. In that directory I have one file (staticTest.py) and one subdirectory (/home/dave/test/static). In the static directory there is a single file ("index.html") that I'm trying to use bottle to send to the browser. The file contents are about as simple as I can make them:

<html> 
  <h1>Hello, World</h1>
</html>

If I just click on the file, a new browser window opens and displays the message. The staticTest.py file is also as simple as I could make it (this is right out of the documentation, the only change being the root parameter):

#!/usr/bin/env python3


from bottle import run, static_file, route


@route('/static/<filename>')
def server_static(filename):
    return static_file(filename, root='/home/dave/test/static')


run(host='localhost', port=8080, debug=True)

When I open a new browser window and enter "localhost:8080/index.html" I get the 404 error. I have tried every permutation of URL, and root parameters I can think of but everything yields the 404 error. I tried downloading a local copy of bottle and putting print statements in it so I can try and find what's going wrong and it appears that my callback is not being registered. For one thing, if I put a print statement prior to the return statement in my script, it doesn't print. Further, in the Bottle def route() function, a print statement at the very end indicates that it is returning decorator rather than decorator(callback). If I could get this simple example working, I can experiment from there to get to my final goal but without a successful Step #1, there is no Step #2.

Thanks,

Dave

Marcel Hellkamp

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Apr 7, 2019, 1:53:20 PM4/7/19

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Hi Dave,

a route matches against the path-part of an HTTP request URL. In your example, '/static/<filename>' would match requests to http://localhost:8080/static/index.html and serve 'index.html' file from the '/home/dave/test/static' directory. "http://localhost:8080/index.html" does not match the route you specified, thus the 404 error.

Am 07.04.19 um 17:47 schrieb Dave Harper:

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Dave Harper

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Apr 7, 2019, 2:08:13 PM4/7/19

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Thanks Marcel - that did it.

Dave

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