[go-nuts] HTTP FileServer Directory

IIRC, use: http.Handle("/public/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("")))

-j

That doesn't seem to work,
Although I can't see why that would work, that just seems like it would
server everything in the folder that contains app.go aka App/
Appreciate the help though

Which directory are you running the binary from ? If you are using Go
run, the current working directory may be surprising.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:22 PM, John-Alan Simmons
wrote:

http.FileServer() looks at the url to see what file to serve. But it
doesn't know which part is the file name and which part is the prefix from
the handler.
ie. when you request ''localhost:8080/public/js/main.js', http.FileServer()
looks for the file '/public/js/main.js' in the directory you gave it.
This ends up being '../public/public/js/main.js' which is obviously not
what you want.

You want.
http.Handle("/public/",
http.StripPrefix("/public/",http.FileServer(http.Dir("../public"))))

As given in the http.FileServer example.
http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#FileServer

That's strange. I've just tripple checked one of our projects - it
really works here.

Excerpts:

         http.Handle("/scripts/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("")))
         ...
         http.Handle("/css/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("")))
         http.Handle("/", http.HandlerFunc(home))
         log.Printf("Starting the web service @ %s\n", *oAddr)
         if err := http.ListenAndServe(*oAddr, nil); err != nil {
                 log.Fatal(err)
         }

Elsewhere:

         <script src="scripts/codemirror/mode/javascript/javascript.js"></script>
         <script src="scripts/codemirror/mode/css/css.js"></script>
         <script src="scripts/codemirror/mode/htmlmixed/htmlmixed.js"></script>

-j

Thanks Jesse,
That works great.