I wanted to create a simple app using webapp2. Because I have Google App Engine installed, and I want to use it outside of GAE, I followed the instructions on this page: http://webapp-improved.appspot.com/tutorials/quickstart.nogae.html
This all went well, my main.py is running, it is handling requests correctly. However, I can't access resources directly.
http://localhost:8080/myimage.jpg or http://localhost:8080/mydata.json
always returns a 404 resource not found page. It doesn't matter if I put the resources on the WebServer/Documents/ or in the folder where the virtualenv is active.
Please help! :-)
(I am on a Mac 10.6 with Python 2.7)
(Adapted from this question)
Looks like webapp2 doesn't have a static file handler; you'll have to roll your own. Here's a simple one:
import mimetypes
class StaticFileHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
def get(self, path):
# edit the next line to change the static files directory
abs_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), path)
try:
f = open(abs_path, 'r')
self.response.headers.add_header('Content-Type', mimetypes.guess_type(abs_path)[0])
self.response.out.write(f.read())
f.close()
except IOError: # file doesn't exist
self.response.set_status(404)
And in your app object, add a route for StaticFileHandler:
app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([('/', MainHandler), # or whatever it's called
(r'/static/(.+)', StaticFileHandler), # add this
# other routes
])
Now http://localhost:8080/static/mydata.json (say) will load mydata.json.
Keep in mind that this code is a potential security risk: It allows any visitors to your website to read everything in your static directory. For this reason, you should keep all your static files to a directory that doesn't contain anything you'd like to restrict access to (e.g. the source code).