Serving static files with Plack

[bangor]

I am working on a project and using Plack for the first time. I am having a little problem getting my static files served...

Directory structure:

app/test.psgi
app/pod-files/test.pod
app/static/test.html
app/html-files/test.html

The code I have for the builder part in test.psgi is:

builder {
    enable "Static",
        path => qr!^/static!,
        ;
    enable "Plack::Middleware::Pod", # great module!
        path => qr!^/pod!,
        root => 'pod-files',
        pod_view => 'Pod::POM::View::HTML',
        ;
    $app;
};

The pod and static files serve up fine:

/app/pod/test.pod        OK
/app/static/test.html    OK

But I want to serve the static files from a different directory to static, so I change the builder to:

builder {
    enable "Static",
        path => qr!^/static!,
        root => 'html-files',
        ;
    enable "Plack::Middleware::Pod",
        path => qr!^/pod!,
        root => 'pod-files',
        pod_view => 'Pod::POM::View::HTML',
        ;
    $app;
};

But, this doesnt work - I now get:

/app/pod/test.pod        OK
/app/static/test.html    not found

I have played around with different values of 'root' but no luck. Any help appreciated.

** Update: managed to work it out - see my comment below

[bangor]

After a little prod from anon monk I read the docs a little closer and found my answer in Plack::App::File

enable "Static",
    path => sub { s!^/static!! },
    root => './html-files',
    ;

My mistake was thinking PM::Static behaved the same as PM::Pod - when i looked at the source of both i saw that PM::Pod was doing the substitution itself:

Plack::Middleware::Pod

my $r = $self->root || './';
$path =~ s!$path_match!$r!;

[Anonymous Monk]

What documentation are you reading?

[bangor]

Mainly this: Plack::Middleware::Static, but it is a bit light. Also the Plack Advent Calendar

[Anonymous Monk]

Try  path => sub { s{^/static/}{}; }, root => 'html-files';

When you only add root, its looking in root/static,