Scanning multiple directories for static content

[chiahrens]

Is there a way to scan multiple directories for static content like connect? Currently, the workaround is to override the function in hapi, and then manually look for the file in each file system directory to determine where it should fetch from. Thanks.

[geek]

Do you want to serve static content from a certain directory? Hapi has a directory route config option that will serve static content in a directory. In the examples folder is a directory server that demonstrates how to use this.

[chiahrens]

We would like hapi to check multiple directories for static content. The use case for this is that we have a "base" repository with some content such has favicon.ico, but we would allow a "customer" to override that file in their own repository. So it would check the customer's static file path first to see if it exists; then if not found, look for it in the "base" repository.

In connect, we just did this:

  app.use(connect.static(path.resolve(BASE_REPO_DIR)));
  app.use(connect.static(path.resolve(FILE_REPO_DIR)));

In hapi, we are currently doing something like this:

    server.route({
        method: 'GET',
        path: '/site/{path*}',
        handler: {
            directory: { path: function(req){
                var p = path.resolve(path.join(FILE_REPO_DIR, req.path));
                var ret = null;
                if(fs.existsSync(p)){
                    ret = path.resolve(path.join(FILE_REPO_DIR, "site"));
                }else{
                    ret = path.resolve(path.join(BASE_REPO_DIR, "site"));
                }
                return ret;
            }}
        }
    });

[hueniverse]

Set path to an array of directories.

[chiahrens]

Awesome. Thanks.