Serving static files with Plack

bangor has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am working on a project and using Plack for the first time. I am having a little problem getting my static files served...

Directory structure:

app/test.psgi
app/pod-files/test.pod
app/static/test.html
app/html-files/test.html
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The code I have for the builder part in test.psgi is:

builder {
    enable "Static",
        path => qr!^/static!,
        ;
    enable "Plack::Middleware::Pod", # great module!
        path => qr!^/pod!,
        root => 'pod-files',
        pod_view => 'Pod::POM::View::HTML',
        ;
    $app;
};
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The pod and static files serve up fine:

/app/pod/test.pod        OK
/app/static/test.html    OK
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But I want to serve the static files from a different directory to static, so I change the builder to:

builder {
    enable "Static",
        path => qr!^/static!,
        root => 'html-files',
        ;
    enable "Plack::Middleware::Pod",
        path => qr!^/pod!,
        root => 'pod-files',
        pod_view => 'Pod::POM::View::HTML',
        ;
    $app;
};
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But, this doesnt work - I now get:

/app/pod/test.pod        OK
/app/static/test.html    not found
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I have played around with different values of 'root' but no luck. Any help appreciated.

** Update: managed to work it out - see my comment below

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Re: Serving static files with Plack by bangor (Monk) on Apr 20, 2016 at 23:05 UTC
After a little prod from anon monk I read the docs a little closer and found my answer in Plack::App::File `enable "Static", path => sub { s!^/static!! }, root => './html-files', ;` [download] My mistake was thinking PM::Static behaved the same as PM::Pod - when i looked at the source of both i saw that PM::Pod was doing the substitution itself: `Plack::Middleware::Pod my $r = $self->root \|\| './'; $path =~ s!$path_match!$r!;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Serving static files with Plack by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2016 at 21:53 UTC
What documentation are you reading?	[reply]
Re^2: Serving static files with Plack by bangor (Monk) on Apr 20, 2016 at 22:16 UTC
Mainly this: Plack::Middleware::Static, but it is a bit light. Also the Plack Advent Calendar	[reply]
Re^3: Serving static files with Plack by Anonymous Monk on Apr 20, 2016 at 23:06 UTC
Try `path => sub { s{^/static/}{}; }, root => 'html-files';` When you only add root, its looking in root/static,	[reply] [d/l]