On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 17:44 -0700, xrfang wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I found a post discussing static file serving. I am also from PHP and
> has the same confusion.  I have a thinking, why cannot we use an
> internal variable such as web.static_path (which default to "/
> static/") to specify which folder is static?  This way, we can specify
> more than one static folder such as /styles/, /img/, /downloads/, this
> will be handy.  And this static_path variable can be a regex, or a
> list/tuple of string/regex.  What do you think?
> 
> 2ndly, if use webpy with other servers such as apache or the GAE, is
> the /static/ file serving directly hand-over to the web server, or it
> is still streamed by webpy?
> 
> Thanks

Hi,

Just an answer to the second question: that depends on how you configure
your webserver. If you configure it to pass on every request to web.py,
it will do just that: pass every request, including /static/.*, to
web.py. Thus, web.py will serve the static file. If you explicitly
configure it to not have fcgi for /static/.*, it will serve static files
internally.

To illustrate this, I posted my configuration to the mailing list a
while ago:

http://groups.google.com/group/webpy/browse_thread/thread/21c659ea62a4106e/992b857f8619e406

It also allows you to eliminate the /static/ entirely. But beware: I am
having trouble with the fcgi process dying after a while, and I still
have not got a clue as to why that is. Be careful when copying this
configuration.

Greetings,

Hraban

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