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

[will trillich]

In your main lib/MyApp.pm file you'll probably notice you've got a line of
code like
use Catalyst qw/ ... Static::Simple .../;

That pulls in Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple which does the part you're
asking about.

See
http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.29/lib/Cata=
lyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm
for
tricks on configuring it to do your bidding.


Also, when running under a webserver such as Apache, you'd likely do some
configuring there to have the webserver send the static files directly
instead of calling on Catalyst to parse through them.

E.g.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Runtime/lib/Catalyst/Engine/FastCGI.pm=
#Static_mode



On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:21 PM, John M. Dlugosz <wxju46gefd at snkmail.com>wr=
ote:

>  On 2/23/2011 6:26 AM, Octavian Rasnita orasnita-at-gmail.com|Catalyst/Al=
low 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?
>
>
>
>
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