Marzia,
Could you please provide an example of how one might use a regular
expression with static_dir url pattern?
The one I provided seemed like a pretty simple one (simple prefix, no
groupings), but it doesn't work, so obviously I'm missing something
here. What does work?
Thank you.
On Jan 6, 10:54 am, Marzia Niccolai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is due to the fact that the url parameter for static_dir works
> differently than that for static_files. The static_dir regex is prefix only
> with no groups:
>
> From static_dir description:
> url
>
> A URL prefix. This value uses regular expression syntax (and so regexp
> special characters must be escaped), but it should not contain groupings.
> All URLs that begin with this prefix are handled by this handler, using the
> portion of the URL after the prefix as part of the file path.
>
> And the description for static_files:
>
> url
>
> The URL pattern, as a regular expression. The expression can contain
> groupings that can be referred to in the file path to the script with
> regular expression back-references.
>
> For example, /item-(.*?)/category-(.*) would match the URL
> /item-127/category-fruit, and use 127 and fruit as the first and second
> groupings.
> -Marzia
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:16 AM, boson wrote:
>
> > GAE docs [1] on configuring for serving static files say the "url"
> > param used with static_dir "uses regular expression syntax". I can't
> > seem to get this to work.
>
> > I wanted to let the URLs "/stuff/v1/thing.gif", "/stuff/v2/thing.gif",
> > etc. all refer to a file "thing.gif" in my app's "/static/stuff"
> > directory. Tried like this:
>
> > - url: /stuff/.*/
> > static_dir: static/stuff
>
> > But I only get 404s. (Nothing earlier in app.yaml is interfering
> > either).
>
> > I ended up converting it to this, which works:
>
> > - url: /stuff/(.*)/(.*)
> > static_files: static/stuff/\2
> > upload: static/stuff/(.*)
>
> > So it works, but the syntax is much more cumbersome. Is regex
> > supposed to work with static_dir, and if so what am I doing wrong (or
> > is this a bug)? Thanks.
>
> > I should say that I have only tested on this dev_appserver (Mac OS X)
> > so far -- haven't verified this problem in production.
>
> > [1]
> >http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/configuringanapp.html#Static_Fi...
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