How to serve static file in Flask

Question

I have a google verification file that I need to have in my root directory. How do I serve it and set up the route correctly in my app.py file? I thought just having it in the static directory would do the trick.

In my app.py file:

import requests; requests = requests.session() from flask import ( Flask, g, session, request, render_template, abort, json, jsonify, make_response ) from jinja2 import TemplateNotFound app = Flask(__name__)

...

@app.route('/ping') def ping(): return "OK" """ Catch-All Route first looks for templates in /templates/pages then looks in /templates finally renders 404.html with 404 status """ @app.route('/', defaults={'path': 'index'}) @app.route('/<path:path>') def show_page(path): if session.get('tracking_url'): session['session_url'] = False templates = [t.format(path=path) for t in 'pages/{path}.html', '{path}.html'] g.path = path try: return render_template(templates, **site_variables(path)) except TemplateNotFound: return render_template('404.html', **site_variables(path)), 404 application = app if __name__ == '__main__': app.run('0.0.0.0', debug=True)

I've tried adding this but it didn't work:

@app.route('/myfile.html') def myfile(): return send_from_directory('/static', 'myfile.html')

You are only serving items from your template directory; if Google looks for the static file in the root then it won't find items in the /static route however. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 14:38
you are effectively preventing any static files to be found. — njzk2
– njzk2, Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 14:51
@njzk2: Werkzeug is pretty good at sorting routes and /static/... will be checked before this catch-all route. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 14:53
When I place the file in templates it doesn't find it. How can I have a route to myfile.html that's stored in the static directory work without changing the catch-all route? — dagarre
– dagarre, Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 14:57
@MartijnPieters: thanks for the precision. I would have though otherwise. (no way to prevent statics from being rendered, then?) — njzk2
– njzk2, Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 15:02

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-29 18:03:43Z

For a one-off file that Google looks for in the root, I'd just add a specific route:

 from flask import send_from_directory @app.route('/foobar_baz') def google_check(): return send_from_directory(app.static_folder, 'foobar_baz')

You are free to add in test in show_page(path) to try and serve path with send_from_directory() before you test for a template, of course; the second filename argument can take relative paths.

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