Can't serve files from outside /

[gavbaa]

Using example.go from this repo as is works just fine. If I change:

    http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(box.HTTPBox()))

to

    http.Handle("/files", http.FileServer(box.HTTPBox()))

(or "/files/" with a trailing slash), everything 404s at any reasonable URL to test, the directory indexes don't work and so forth. I tried /file.txt, /files, /files/, /files/file.txt and several other variations. Am I instantiating something wrong, or is there a path issue here?

[GeertJohan]

You probably want to use http.StipPrefix() (http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#StripPrefix)
e.g.: http.Handle("/files/", http.StripPrefix("/files/", http.FileServer(box.HTTPBox())))

Does this solve your problem?

[gavbaa]

Shoot, yes. Thanks for the pointer, sorry about that!

I'd love to see an example of that in the docs, I'll bet it's a common use case to want to serve a subdirectory of static assets in a site.

[GeertJohan]

Np. Glad you got it working :)