Static Files

Go already has the built-in http.ServeFile package to serve static files. Beego made a wrapper for it. To register static files use:

  1. web.SetStaticPath("/static","public")
  • The first parameter is the url path
  • The second parameter is the static file directory path. (relative to the application directory)

Beego supports multiple static file directories:

  1. web.SetStaticPath("/images","images")
  2. web.SetStaticPath("/css","css")
  3. web.SetStaticPath("/js","js")

With the above settings, request /images/login/login.png will find application_path/images/login/login.png and request /static/img/logo.png will find public/img/logo.png file.

By default Beego will check if the file exists, if not it will return a 404 page. If the request is for index.html, because http.ServeFile will redirect and doesn’t display this page by default, you can set web.BConfig.WebConfig.DirectoryIndex = true to show index.html page. If this is enabled, users can see the file list while visit the directory.