[Catalyst] Serving a static document

[Kieren Diment]

On 02/10/2009, at 9:13 PM, matthew couchman (JIC) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm quite new to Catalyst so apologies if this is a naive question.  
> I'm trying to create a KML document within catalyst and then  
> redirect the server to that document. The problem I'm having is that  
> Catalyst seems to be interpreting the URL of the document (e.g. http://localhost:3000/root/src/test.kml) 
>  as a call to a script which it doesn't recognise and so it reverts  
> to the default page. How do I override this behaviour?
>

Something like this (untested):

sub thing :Path('test.kml') {
   my ($self, $c) = @_;
   $c->serve_static_file('relative/path/from/app/root/to/test.kml');
}	

or similar.  Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple does the dirty work for  
you.