Question

I’d love to be able to change the webpy static directory without the need to set up and run nginx locally. Right now, it seems webpy will only create a static directory if /static/ exists. In my case, I want to use /foo/bar/ as my static directory, but couldn’t find any info related to configuring this (other than running apache or nginx locally).

This is for local use only, not production. Any ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

If you need to have different directory for the same path then you may subclass web.httpserver.StaticMiddleware or write your own middleware like this (it tricks StaticApp by modifying PATH_INFO):

import web
import os
import urllib
import posixpath

urls = ("/.*", "hello")
app = web.application(urls, globals())

class hello:
    def GET(self):
        return 'Hello, world!'


class StaticMiddleware:
    """WSGI middleware for serving static files."""
    def __init__(self, app, prefix='/static/', root_path='/foo/bar/'):
        self.app = app
        self.prefix = prefix
        self.root_path = root_path

    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
        path = environ.get('PATH_INFO', '')
        path = self.normpath(path)

        if path.startswith(self.prefix):
            environ["PATH_INFO"] = os.path.join(self.root_path, web.lstrips(path, self.prefix))
            return web.httpserver.StaticApp(environ, start_response)
        else:
            return self.app(environ, start_response)

    def normpath(self, path):
        path2 = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path))
        if path.endswith("/"):
            path2 += "/"
        return path2


if __name__ == "__main__":
    wsgifunc = app.wsgifunc()
    wsgifunc = StaticMiddleware(wsgifunc)
    wsgifunc = web.httpserver.LogMiddleware(wsgifunc)
    server = web.httpserver.WSGIServer(("0.0.0.0", 8080), wsgifunc)
    print "http://%s:%d/" % ("0.0.0.0", 8080)
    try:
        server.start()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        server.stop()

Or you can create symlink named “static” and point it to another directory.