Rocket: StaticFiles serving

[suhaschitade]

Hi,

I am following static files serving example, however compiler is complaining about below issue

error[E0432]: unresolved import rocket_contrib::serve
--> src/main.rs:12:21
|
12 | use rocket_contrib::serve::StaticFiles;
| ^^^^^ could not find serve in rocket_contrib

Not sure if examples needs to be updated

Regards,
Suhas

[SergioBenitez]

You need to enable the serve feature. This is in the docs.

[suhaschitade]

thank you. Indeed, I lately referred Cargo.toml. Although its working now browser logs shows below errors to me

localhost/:161 GET http://localhost:8000/static/vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)
localhost/:164 GET http://localhost:8000/static/js/clean-blog.min.js net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)
localhost/:14 GET http://localhost:8000/static/css/clean-blog.min.css net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)
localhost/:9 GET http://localhost:8000/static/vendor/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)
localhost/:6 GET http://localhost:8000/static/vendor/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)
localhost/:160 GET http://localhost:8000/static/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)
localhost/:160 GET http://localhost:8000/static/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)
localhost/:161 GET http://localhost:8000/static/vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)
localhost/:164 GET http://localhost:8000/static/js/clean-blog.min.js net::ERR_ABORTED 500 (Internal Server Error)

Not sure why are these error

[SergioBenitez]

Those don't look like Rocket's log messages.

[suhaschitade]

Here are few logs from rocket

GET /static/vendor/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css text/css:
=> Matched: GET / => Warning: Response was None.
=> Outcome: Failure
=> Warning: Responding with 404 Not Found catcher.
=> Response succeeded.
GET /static/vendor/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css text/css:
=> Matched: GET / => Warning: Response was None.
=> Outcome: Failure
=> Warning: Responding with 404 Not Found catcher.
GET /static/css/clean-blog.min.css text/css:
=> Matched: GET / => Warning: Response was None.
=> Outcome: Failure
=> Warning: Responding with 404 Not Found catcher.
=> Response succeeded.
GET /static/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js:
=> Matched: GET / => Warning: Response was None.
=> Outcome: Failure
=> Warning: Responding with 404 Not Found catcher.
=> Response succeeded.
GET /static/vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js:
GET /static/js/clean-blog.min.js:
=> Matched: GET / => => Warning: Response was None.
=> Outcome: Failure
=> Warning: Responding with 404 Not Found catcher.
=> Matched: GET / => Warning: Response was None.
=> Outcome: Failure
=> Warning: Responding with 404 Not Found catcher.

Below is the code
.mount("/", StaticFiles::from("static/"))

[SergioBenitez]

Are you starting your application in a directory that contains the static/ directory? The docs mention this.

[suhaschitade]

No, I was using handlebar templates example which has templates directory, inside template I have created static directory and placed JS and CSS over there.

[suhaschitade]

created static folder in the same directory and tried to execute the project, however it results are same no luck.

[SergioBenitez]

@suhaschitade Try .mount("/", StaticFiles::from("static")). That is static without the trailing /.

[suhaschitade]

Thank you. I tried, however no change in results.

[SergioBenitez]

@suhaschitade Sorry, I don't know how to help you. The unit tests and my local testing confirm that everything works as expected. Please read the documentation closely.

[suhaschitade]

thanks for your help. I followed todo example and created static directory and place all html css js there it seems to be working now. Although I would really want to keep HTML separate from css, js it seems its not possible at the moment.
Regards,

[SergioBenitez]

@suhaschitade There is no such restriction. You can place files wherever you like.