tangent, thank you for suggesting a solution. I am a bit, embarrassed for I am not familiar yet with the Perl lingo. I'm afraid that I may have to ask for a little clarification. Does the suggested code have to be run in a new .psgi file? or should I just add the code you suggested to the .psgi file I originally created? Also, what does the 3 dots in the my $app = sub { ...}; mean? Is that also part of the code that I should just write in verbatim? Thank you for being patient.

Certainly no need to be embarassed, how else do we learn but by asking questions? I could have been a bit clearer too! You just need to add the code to your existing file, the my $app = sub { ... }; is a placeholder for what you have already. The important thing is to put the 'builder' part at the very end, so:

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use Template;
use Plack::Builder;

my $app = sub {
    my $html = get_html();                 
    # etc
};

sub get_html {
    # etc
}

builder {
    enable "Static", path => qr!^/static!, root => '/Library/WebServer
+/Documents';
    $app;
}
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tangent, thank you for leading me in the right direction. The code you gave me worked with a little adjustment. I tweaked the regex part in order to conform with the second code found in the advent tutorial you mentioned.

builder {
    enable "Static", path => sub { s!^/static/!! }, root => '/Library/
+WebServer/Documents';
    $app;
}
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I found the code you originally suggested in the same tutorial. Thank you for taking the time. For some reason unknown to me, it needed to be tweaked a little bit. Thanks again and kudos!