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Shaurya Chaudhuri
Shaurya Chaudhuri

Reputation: 3842

Serving static directories in CherryPy

I am trying to serve static files using CherryPy but I am unable to. I have looked in the tutorials but setting it up like that is also not working properly.

All this is using Python 3.4

Config

config = {
        '/ws': {
            'tools.websocket.on': True,
            'tools.websocket.handler_cls': ChatWebSocketHandler,
            'tools.websocket.protocols': ['toto', 'mytest', 'hithere']
        },
        '/assets': {
              'tools.staticdir.on': True,
              'tools.staticdir.dir': constants.TEMPLATE_PATH
        },
    }

I am starting up cherryPy like this

app_root = Root(args.host, args.port, args.ssl, ssl_port=args.ssl_port)
cherrypy.quickstart(app_root, '', config=config)

Constant Path is

TEMPLATE_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)),"assets/")

I have tried using paths like assets/, /assets/ as well instead of the above constant.

The thing is it does not recognize anyone of them and always gives a 404 error.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1255

Answers (1)

Peter C. Miller
Peter C. Miller

Reputation: 26

I too have had difficulty setting this up. I have a rather complicated setup complete with multiple subdomains that has evolve through several early versions of CherryPy which may no longer be valid, and I've not verified this will work in the simpler quickstart configuration you have here. However the key lines in a setup that actually works for me is to put the config lines below in the webservice object that you mount. I put the config dict that defines the static dir in the class definition before any resources. It looks to me like you've defined your static dir in the configuration dict rather of a specific resource rather than the object. So perhaps try in your hosted service object:

class WebService(object):
    _cp_config = {
                  'tools.staticdir.on': True,
                  'tools.staticdir.dir': '/path/to/serve/static/files/from'
                  }

    @cherrypy.expose
         def index(self):

   [ ...additional resource definitions, etc ...]

Then later on:

    my_cp_app = 
    cherrypy.tree.mount(subDomain.WebService(),
                        '/subdomainFileLocation',
                        subdomainConfigDict)

    cherrypy.quickstart(config=domainConfig)

I know you're working on Python 3. This above works for me on Python 2.7 + cherrypy-8.1.2. I hope this is helpful.

Upvotes: 1

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