need some help in serving static files inside a wsgi apps

[Diez B. Roggisch]

kib schrieb:
> Diez B. Roggisch a écrit :
>> Tool69 schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Until now, I was running my own static site with Python, but I'm in
>>> need of dynamism.
>>>
>>> After reading some cgi tutorials, I saw Joe Gregorio's old article
>>> "Why so many Python web frameworks?" about wsgi apps [http://
>>> bitworking.org/news/Why_so_many_Python_web_frameworks] and have a
>>> question about it. The code he gave works like a charm (I had to make
>>> a little change because SQLAlchemy has changed since), but how the
>>> hell can I serve static files (css, js, images, etc.) within an wsgi
>>> app, ie inside a '/static' directory ?!
>>
>> There is a wsgi-app out there that is called "static". Use that.
>>
>> And it's the first hit on google "wsgi static"... :)
>>
>> http://lukearno.com/projects/static/
>>
>> Diez
> 
> Hi Diez,
> 
> and thanks for yout help. In fact I already found it but never managed 
> to get it work because the static doc says :
> 
> from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
> import static
> make_server('localhost', 9999, static.Cling('/var/www')).serve_forever()
> 
> and inside J.Gregorio's tutorial it is:
> 
> from wsgiref.simple_server import WSGIServer, WSGIRequestHandler
> httpd = WSGIServer(('localhost', 8080), WSGIRequestHandler)
> httpd.set_app(urls.urls)
> 
> It does not use 'make_server()' so how can I adapt it ?

static.Cling is a wsgi-app. The other code just makes a specific 
wsgi-implementation based server out of it.


> I finally managed to work with static files with a little hack, but it's 
> ugly because I'm reading each static file per request.

How else should that work? Apache does that the same way.

Diez