Static URL in cherrypy

[SuperTwister]

My web site works with a cherrypy server, and HTML/JS client. I want that that my website will have a static link, so no matter which page will be visited, the URL on the browser will be stay the same.

Currently the link is:

/static/index.html

I want that the link will be:

/home

Here is the website configuration:

class Root(object):
    def __init__(self, target):
        self.target_server = target

 cherrypy.quickstart(webapp, '/', conf)

I have tried to change cherrypy.quickstart(webapp, '/', conf) to cherrypy.quickstart(webapp, '/home', conf), but it's just changed the link to /home/static/index.html.

Any idea?

[Stefan Krüger]

Hi SuperTwister,

have a look at

Tutorial 2: Different URLs lead to different functions

 if you modifie the example as this:

import random
import string

import cherrypy

class MyHome(object):
    @cherrypy.expose
    def index(self):
        raise cherrypy.HTTPRedirect("/home")

    @cherrypy.expose
    def home(self):
        return "hello world"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cherrypy.quickstart(MyHome())

you should get to the home path every time you try to access your route.

to server static things have a look at
Static content serving - Serving a whole directory

iam using something like this for my static things:

.......

dir_current = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

......

class StaticFiles(object):

    """only there to have a class..."""

    pass
    # _cp_config = {
    #     'tools.staticdir.on': True,
    #     # 'tools.staticdir.root': dir_static,
    #     # 'tools.staticdir.dir': '',
    #     'tools.staticdir.index' : 'index.html'
    # }
#


....

# config static tool
    dir_static = os.path.join(dir_current, 'static')
    configStatic = {
        '/': {
            'tools.staticdir.on': True,
            'tools.staticdir.root': dir_static,
            'tools.staticdir.dir': '',
            'tools.staticdir.index': 'index.html'
        },
    }

    cherrypy.tree.mount(StaticFiles(), '', configStatic)

....

    # start cherrypy
    print('')
    print('******************************************')
    print('')
    print('cherrypy server - start engine:')
    cherrypy.engine.start()
    cherrypy.engine.block()

eventually that helps you?!

sunny greetings
stefan

[SuperTwister]

Hi Stefan Krüger, It's doesn't works. 

I've tried to use 

[/static] 
tools.staticdir.on = True 
tools.staticdir.dir = "/home/site/static" 
tools.staticdir.index = "index.html"

But it didn't work.

Please have a look at my code. Do you know what could be the issue?

cherrypy.config.update({
                        'server.socket_port': 9090,
                        'server.socket_host': '0.0.0.0'
                       })
conf = {
    '/': {
            'tools.sessions.on': True,
            'tools.staticdir.root': os.path.abspath(os.getcwd())
         },
    '/static': {
            'tools.staticdir.on': True,
            'tools.staticdir.dir': './static/html'
            'tools.staticdir.index': 'index.html'
         },
    '/js': {
            'tools.staticdir.on': True,
            'tools.staticdir.dir': './static/js'
         },
    '/css': {
            'tools.staticdir.on': True,
            'tools.staticdir.dir': './static/css'
         },
    '/img': {
            'tools.staticdir.on': True,
            'tools.staticdir.dir': './static/img'
         },
    '/fonts': {
            'tools.staticdir.on': True,
            'tools.staticdir.dir': './static/fonts'

    }


}


class Root(object):
    def __init__(self, target):
        self.target_server =

target


    @cherrypy.expose
    def index(self):
        raise cherrypy.HTTPRedirect("/static/index.html")


   cherrypy.quickstart(webapp, '/home', conf)

[Stefan Krüger]

Hi SuperTwister,

i think your code can't work.
you have a 'webapp' in your quickstart but no place you define it..
pleas do some work on your own:
build a minimal one-file example that is runnable.

you can start with on of the documentation examples:
http://docs.cherrypy.org/en/latest/basics.html?highlight=quickstart#the-one-minute-application-example
(http://docs.cherrypy.org/en/latest/pkg/cherrypy.html?highlight=quickstart#cherrypy.quickstart)

and than extend it first so that the basic static serving works. (like in the documentation)
and if you have this running copy&save it with a new file name and try to include what you want to achieve.

and than one more thing:

But it didn't work.

says nothing.
Does the script run or is there a startup error?
are there runtime errors?
what is happening when you try to do what you want?

don't get me wrong - i am willing to help - but i have not the time to do it all for you..

sunny greetings
stefan

[Kearney Taaffe]

Hopefully this helps you.

Here's a simple site I created just to serve static web-content. 

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

public/

   css/

       style.css

   js/

   views/

       index.html

server.py

and here's the code I have in my server.py file

import os

import cherrypy

class Root(object):

    pass       

if __name__ == '__main__':

    root = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))  # this file's directory

    print root

        

    cherrypy.config.update( {

        'server.socket_host': '0.0.0.0',

        'server.socket_port': 8080,

    } )

    

    conf = {

        '/': {

            'tools.staticdir.on': True,

            'tools.staticdir.dir': root + '/public',

            'tools.staticdir.index': '/public/views/index.html'

        }

    }

    cherrypy.quickstart(Root(), '/', conf)