The development server returns HTML instead of static files if you try to load one directly

[cutemachine]

In my markdown files I link to some zip files a reader can download. But these links do not work, because they get handled by React Router and then result in a 404 error.

What is the best approach to handle file download links with markdown in Gatsby?

[MoOx]

You can probably take a look how Phenomic handle this use case. We have solved this issue a few weeks ago ;)

[KyleAMathews]

@cutemachine have you tried testing this after building the site? It should work there as by default, Gatsby doesn't catch link clicks in markdown files so the browser will return to the server to grab the file. I just tested this quickly and that worked.

But you are correct that this is broken when running gatsby develop. If you look at this code in develop.js https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/lib/utils/develop.js#L100-L112 the development server is just looking to see if a request has text/html in the header. This should instead look to see if there's a non-page/non-template file at that path and serve it instead of returning html. #208 would need fixed before this.

[cutemachine]

I have assets like Lua files and zip files, for the user to download. What I want to achieve is to hold the assets within my page structure where the Markdown files and the images are. For the images it works fine, but only for images. I think what I am really looking for is the whitelist for file types.

Thanks for the answer.

[KyleAMathews]

@LukeSheard I was going to wait until this had some tests but... it's a
pretty simple change and we can add tests after the fact. #YOLO :-) I just
published 0.10.1. Let me know if it's working for ya.

Also the goal is you store assets inside /pages along with other page
files. Right now that's a bit tricky see
#243 and
#208 so either you can store
static non-page assets in an assets directory and copy them over on build
or you can add null-loaders for file-types not already covered here
https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/lib/utils/webpack.config.js#L186-L208

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:59 PM Luke Sheard notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm having this issue as well when trying to test if images load as well.
I can't see any recommended instructions on how to store static assets like
images / pdfs / etc. I'm just trying to load a simple images, but as
described above I think it's still returning an HTML page. Any ideas when
#268 #268 might be merged?

(For reference the repo is LukeSheard/lukesheard.com@v2)

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