In your main lib/MyApp.pm file you'll probably notice you've got a line of code like<div>use Catalyst qw/ ... Static::Simple .../;<br><br></div><div>That pulls in Catalyst::Plugin::Static::Simple which does the part you're asking about.</div>
<div><br></div><div>See <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.29/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm">http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.29/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm</a> for tricks on configuring it to do your bidding.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>E.g. <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Runtime/lib/Catalyst/Engine/FastCGI.pm#Static_mode">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Runtime/lib/Catalyst/Engine/FastCGI.pm#Static_mode</a></div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:21 PM, John M. Dlugosz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wxju46gefd@snkmail.com">wxju46gefd@snkmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"> On 2/23/2011 6:26 AM, Octavian Rasnita <a href="http://orasnita-at-gmail.com" target="_blank">orasnita-at-gmail.com</a> |Catalyst/Allow to home| wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
And of course, it is recommended to configure the web server to not send the requests to those directories to the Catalyst app.<br>
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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?<div class="im"><br>
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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.<br>
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So use $c->uri_for('/path/to/static/file');<br>
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$c->uri_for_action('/path/to/action'); #for the dynamic pages<br>
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I see, so do that for static files too, not just actions?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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