Nancy: serve static content in web root

Question

I have a nancy project which is to serve static content, located in /my/web/root/. I created a IRootPathProvider to set the webroot to /my/web/root/, but when I add the rule StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddDirectory("/", "/"), "it does not work": the server does not respond.

I can also set the root path to /my/web/ and then set the rule path to /root, but that is very ugly, and sounds like a source for bugs.

Is there a way to solve this in a neat way?

Answer 1

When I want to serve static content at the root of my web app I configure Nancy the following way.

public class CustomBoostrapper : DefaultNancyBootstrapper
{
    protected override void ConfigureConventions(NancyConventions conventions)
    {
        base.ConfigureConventions(conventions);

        conventions.StaticContentsConventions.Add(
            StaticContentConventionBuilder.AddDirectory("/", @"_Root")
        );
    }
}

This will serve static content from a _Root folder in the solution but it will appear as at the root of the application.

e.g.

localhost:3579/text.txt

served from

app-dir\_Root\text.txt