statik/fs: no zip data registered

[rafaelspaic]

sorry if I'm missing something really obvious, I don't have any previous experience with go and I'm trying to run this :)

I tried it in two different servers (debian 9 and ubuntu 19.10) with the same results..

• got the latest version of go
• go get -u github.com/nektro/andesite

I see it gets and auto compiles to ~/go/bin/andesite so I tried to run this first and the result is

2019-11-27 22:33:04: Initializing Andesite...
2019-11-27 22:33:04: Reading configuration from /home/rafa/.config/andesite/config.json
2019-11-27 22:33:04: statik/fs: no zip data registered

then I went to ~/go/src/github.com/nektro/andesite

• go build && ./andesite
  (same result)

last thing I tried was changing my config.json to

{
"version": 2,
"root": "/home/rafa",
"public": "/home/rafa/public",
"port": 8000
}

which made no difference

any help would be appreciated, thank you

[nektro]

the missing step is located in scripts/build_all.sh but thanks for reminding me I missed this out in the Development section of the README. In order to fix this issue you also have to run:

go get -v -u github.com/rakyll/statik

and then from within, $GOPATH/src/github.com/nektro/andesite then also run:

$GOPATH/bin/statik -src="./www/"

this will use the statik program to pack the www/ folder into the code so that when you run go build the assets will be built into the binary.

[nektro]

however, as this step is only done during local development, and is done automatically during the automated builds I should make it so that this error is not thrown when statik is not ran.

[rafaelspaic]

It's working perfect now! 😄 this is exact what I needed for my project, really easy to add my discord friends by id, etc. so it embeds the /www/ in the binary and uses the embedded stuff only if it can't find the www folder, correct? thank you again 👍

[nektro]

Yes, statik is used so that the www/ assets can be embedded and Andesite can be used as a standalone binary. However, having a local www/ folder or using a theme allows you to override the use of the embedded assets.