Unable to serve static file from flask server

Question

I have a index.html file, which has the absolute path 'c:\project\web\frontend\index.html'

I am trying to return it using the following function

@webserver.route('/')
def home()
     return webserver.send_static_file(path)

I have verified that the path is correct by accessing it directly in the browser.

I have tried to replace '\' with '/' without any luck.

It is running on a windows machine.

Nour · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-28 18:26:57Z

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If you look at flask's documentation for send_static_file. You'll see that it says that it's used internally by flask framework to send a file to the browser. If you want to render an html, it's common to use render_template. You need to make sure that your index.html is in a folder called templates first. So I would do the following:

@webserver.route('/')
def home()
     return flask.render_template('index.html')

answered Apr 28, 2019 at 18:26

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Atle Kristiansen Over a year ago

yes, but since this is a static HTML, I though I could use send_static_file. The issue was that I did not see that the file must be under a predefined "static folder". Once I defined the the path to be static in the app definition, it worked.

Atle Kristiansen · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-28 18:34:42Z

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I had to define the path to be the static_folder, when creating the flask object. Once I defined the folder to be static, the html page was served.

answered Apr 28, 2019 at 18:34

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