What is the way to reference an image from within a bottle template?

nikos.at....@gmail.com

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Sep 23, 2018, 8:00:12 AM9/23/18

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When within a bottle template file, what is the way to reference a static file? for example this one?

<body background='/static/img/digital.gif'>

Why the above relative file fails to load the image? How can i reference it correctly? If i try it as:

<body background="{{ static_file( 'digital.gif', root='./static/img' }}">

The image also fail to render.

Why Bottle fail to render the image even if no 'static_file' function is used?

Marcel Hellkamp

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Sep 23, 2018, 8:19:07 AM9/23/18

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Am 23.09.2018 um 09:05 schrieb nikos.at....@gmail.com:

When within a bottle template file, what is the way to reference a static file? for example this one?
<body background='/static/img/digital.gif'>
Why the above relative file fails to load the image?

Th above example instructs the browser to load the image from http://whatever.your-domain.is/static/img/digital.gif. Make sure the image is reachable under that URL. You need something like this on server site:

@route('/static/<filename:path>')
def server_static(filename):
return static_file(filename, root='/path/to/your/static/files')

By the way, the '<body background=...>' is deprecated and not supported in HTML5. If your template generates a HTML5 file, the browser might just ignore unsupported tags or attributes it.

How can i reference it correctly? If i try it as:
<body background="{{ static_file( 'digital.gif', root='./static/img' }}">
The image also fail to render.

How is that supposed to work?

nikos.at....@gmail.com

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Sep 26, 2018, 12:17:38 PM9/26/18

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The image is not reachbale iam afraid i do NOT understand why.

DocumentRoot is '/home/nikos/public_html' and the images folder is under '/home/nikos/public_html/static/img' but when i request:

Sorry, the requested URL 'http://superhost.gr/static/img/digital.gif' caused an error:

Not found: '/static/img/digital.gif'

Why would that happen?

Νικόλαος Κούρας

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Sep 26, 2018, 12:17:39 PM9/26/18

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The images is not reachable under that url.

my DocumentRoot is '/home/nikos/public_html'

Why can't even i see the image as http://superhost.gr/static/img/digital.gif ?

The images are in '/home/nikos/public_html/static/img/' folder

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Marcel Hellkamp

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Sep 26, 2018, 12:37:15 PM9/26/18

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On 09/23/2018 02:47 PM, nikos.at....@gmail.com wrote:
> The image is not reachbale iam afraid i do NOT understand why.
>
> DocumentRoot is '/home/nikos/public_html' and the images folder is
> under '/home/nikos/public_html/static/img' but when i request:

Did you add a route for static files, as I told you in my first reply?
Bottle does not magically serve files from disk.
You need to explicitly add a route to serve static files, as documented
here: http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html#routing-static-files