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python - bottle+gevent cannot serve static files

I'm using bottle with gevent for my python webdev experiments. My problem is that I can't serve static files, e.g. use external css in my templates. My folders structure is: /static/css/style.css

My code:

index.py

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
from gevent import monkey; monkey.patch_all() #patching default Python threads
from bottle import mount, run, debug #initializing bottle
from routes import root #importing site routes
debug( True )
run( app = root , host = '0.0.0.0' , port = 80 , server = 'gevent' )

routes.py

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
from bottle import *
root = Bottle()

@root.get('/static/<path:path>')
def serve_files( path ):
    return static_file( path , root = '/static/' )

Here is my traceback from terminal:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [2011-12-22 09:36:44] "GET /static/css/style.css HTTP/1.1" 500 161 0.002867
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gevent-0.13.6-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/gevent/pywsgi.py", line 438, in handle_one_response
    self.run_application()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gevent-0.13.6-py2.7-linux-i686.egg/gevent/pywsgi.py", line 424, in run_application
    self.result = self.application(self.environ, self.start_response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bottle-0.10.4-py2.7.egg/bottle.py", line 849, in __call__
    return self.wsgi(environ, start_response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bottle-0.10.4-py2.7.egg/bottle.py", line 841, in wsgi
    % (html_escape(repr(_e())), html_escape(format_exc(10)))
NameError: global name '_e' is not defined

Please, help.

UPDATE:

I've downloaded unstable version of Bottle (version 0.11) and import it into my script. Now there is no 500 errors and tracebacks, but style.css gives me 404.

[2011-12-22 12:42:59] "GET /static/css/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 122 0.000591
Solution

  • Your 404 is because probably your root path to static files is wrong.

    root='/static/' is ok only if you have a static folder in your root file system. Probably it is not what you really have. If you have a project folder and inside this folder you have a static folder, use root='./static/' and it will work fine.