[Catalyst] Root page for site (my first attempt!)

[John M. Dlugosz]

  On 2/23/2011 6:26 AM, Octavian Rasnita orasnita-at-gmail.com |Catalyst/Allow to home| 
wrote:
>
> But you can create one or more directory with static files, for example /images, /js, 
> /css. These directories must be created under the root directory.
> And of course, it is recommended to configure the web server to not send the requests to 
> those directories to the Catalyst app.

That's exactly what I want.  How do I tell Catalyst that /images should be static files 
under /root/images, rather than a controller named Images?

>
> And as Carl recommended, it is good to not hard-code the URLS in the templates because 
> they won't work if you'll want to make some changes and want to put the whole 
> application to listen to a different base than /, for example /old-site.
>
> So use $c->uri_for('/path/to/static/file');
> or
> $c->uri_for_action('/path/to/action'); #for the dynamic pages
>
I see, so do that for static files too, not just actions?