[Haskell-cafe] Hosting a static site with Yesod

[Michael Snoyman]

I just wrote an answer to this on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27200701/hosting-a-static-site-with-yesod/27204171#27204171

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014, 5:43 PM Christopher Reichert <creichert07 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Nov 29 2014, Yifan Yu <yvifan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm experimenting with Yesod and I've created a simple scaffolding site
> > with yesod. I've downloaded a bootstrap template site and wish to simply
> > host this site with yesod. The template site has an index.html and a
> bunch
> > of css and js files. This seemly simple task has baffled me. By my
> > understanding, the site should be placed under the 'static' directory, I
> > tried to use sendFile to send the index.html file in getHomeR, but only
> the
> > content of the that file is displayed, without the css and js. Should I
> do
> > this with a Subsite?
> >
>
> You might want to try the question on the Yesod mailing lists if you
> don't find your answer here.
>
> A simple solution would be to just port the index.html to hamlet and put
> that directly in the ./templates/homepage.hamlet file. The
> homepage.hamlet file is complimented by a homepage.julius and
> homepage.lucius file which takes a flavor of javascript and css,
> respectively. In Yesod, the combination of these files is known as a
> widget.
>
> You can move your javascript and css into those widget files directly or
> you can put them in your static dir (but your html is served from
> homepage.hamlet by default in the scaffold).
>
> The static directory is already a subsite for static resources (see the
> config/routes file).
>
> Also see the section "widgetFile" in this Yesod Book chapter:
> http://www.yesodweb.com/book/scaffolding-and-the-site-template
>
> If you want to serve the static files as a separate subsite you might
> find the following links helpful:
>
> https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/wiki/Static-file-subsite-Hello-World
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/yesodweb/
> Cz8hvgiu0d0/l90NGvhAyLEJThis
>
> Hope that helps,
>
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