[Cherrypy-users] Question on serving local image files

[Morgan K. <mk...@ve...>]

I am pretty new the the wonderful world of html page creation. I am
using cherrypy because of its python interface which also gives me the
ability to connect to my postgres database. I am creating some tests
programs right now, and am mostly in an exploration phase at the moment.
So far its great!

However, I am very interested in being able to integrate images from
outside the database into pages displaying hits from the database. I
already setup a simple framework to do this. However, I was forced to
strictly mirror the setup I found in an example program. First of all
this is considered in cherrypy as serving static content... correct? So
I setup a directory literally called "static" in the same directory as
where I run the cherrypy app from. I set the following values in the
config file:
static_filter.root="mydirhere" (mydirhere is the base dir for the app")
staticFilter.on = True
staticFilter.dir ="static"

Then in my app I create images based on the results retrieved from the
database, place them in that static directory, and then server them up
through href tags in my html pages. That works great! However, as soon
as I try to use a directory other than static... say cache.. and then
change the config variable staticFilter.dir = "cache", it complains that
it can't find the images when I request them in cherrypy. Naturally I
change the variables associated with these paths inside the python code
as well. Shouldn't this be possible? Am I missing some other config
variable? Thanks for the help in advance!