Question

I have all my static files in a folder called html in the root directory. I get the following error while trying to access the index.html in html folder:

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INFO     2012-07-27 04:07:44,847 dev_appserver.py:2952] "GET /images/logo_footer.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 -

Here is the folder structure:

Handler code in handlers folder:

class MainHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
  def get (self, q):
    if q is None:
      q = '../html/index.html'

    path = os.path.join (os.path.dirname (__file__), q)
    self.response.headers ['Content-Type'] = ContentType.HTML_TEXT
    self.response.out.write (template.render (path, {}))

Here is the url rule for images on app.yaml:

- url: /.*
  script: notify.app

# image files
- url: /(.*\.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))
  static_files: html/images/\1
  upload: html/images/(.*\.(bmp|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|png))

Am I doing anything wrong here?

Answer 1

You need to move the url : /.* section to after the image files section in app.yaml. These are processed in order, and /.* matches everything, so the second - url: line is never used.