Question

I want all .html files to be redirected to a public folder where they are located so I put this in my routes file:

GET     /$file<.html>           controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/html", file)

but it says Action not found For request 'GET /index.html'

but I can see it there (when the error appears):

GET/$file<.html> controllers.Assets.at(path:String = "/public/html", file:String)

Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

The regex you specified <.html> is only going to match a request that looks like “/ahtml”, “/bhtml”, “/chtml”, or so on since the “.” is a single character wildcard.

What you want is something like this, I think:

GET   /$file<.*\.html$>      controllers.Assets.at(path="/public/html", file)

The .* is a catch-all for whatever the first part of the file happens to be.

The \.html$ is what restricts it to html files. Though not strictly necessary, I escaped the dot so it actually matches a period instead of any character.