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!