Question

I’m trying to set up two different static asset routes, and the second one fails. What am I missing?

To duplicate the issue:

1. start with the hello world from the scala samples.

2. add a line to routes, so now there are two static routes:

   GET     /assets/*file       controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)
   GET     /assets2/*file      controllers.Assets.at(path="/public2", file)
   

3. comment out the Assets references in main.scala.html, so it doesn’t complain about them

4. put a file in public and public2.

   $ cat > public/foo.txt
   hi
   $ mkdir public2
   $ cp public/foo.txt public2
   

5. verify that the public dir works.

   $ telnet localhost 9000
   Trying 127.0.0.1...
   Connected to localhost.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   GET /assets/foo.txt HTTP/1.0
   
   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   Content-Length: 3
   Content-Type: text/plain
   Etag: 5246040afe91a4cc93bd838a4d5db3984b99470b
   Cache-Control: no-cache
   
   hi
   Connection closed by foreign host.
   

6. verify that the second one doesn’t work.

   $ telnet localhost 9000
   Trying 127.0.0.1...
   Connected to localhost.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   GET /assets2/foo.txt HTTP/1.0
   
   HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
   Content-Length: 0
   
   Connection closed by foreign host.
   

I’m sure there’s something obvious here, I”m just not seeing it.

Answer 1

You should add public2 folder to playAssetsDirectories in sbt config

playAssetsDirectories <+= baseDirectory / "public2"

See PlaySettings as an example.