ServiceStack Self host static file paths

ServiceStack Self Hosting
1

Hi,

I have a self host web server, I am having issues loading static content for the web page. Is there a event that I can signup to that can give me the hint to what path ServiceStack is trying to load the file from?

Thanks

2

There’s no event, but ServiceStack is just going to try serve the file from:

var file = HostContext.ResolveVirtualNode(httpReq.PathInfo, httpReq);

Which you can potentially simulate by hijacking the request and returning the StaticFileHandler yourself:

appHost.RawHttpHandlers.Add(req => MyShouldHandleRequest(req) 
    ? new StaticFileHandler(req.GetVirtualNode())
    : null
);
3

For some reason StaticFileHandler can’t find the files in the debug directory. The path to the files is correct but still none of the files are returned.

4

See if you have [any StartupErrors in ?debug=requestinfo][1], also the VirtualPathProvider should show the path the FileSystemVirtualPathProvider is configured to look at.

Something else you can try is [changing the physical path][2] to look at your project folder (instead of the /bin folder where it’s run), e.g:

SetConfig(new HostConfig {
#if DEBUG
    DebugMode = true,
    WebHostPhysicalPath = "~/../..".MapServerPath(),
#endif
});
```


  [1]: http://docs.servicestack.net/debugging#request-info
  [2]: http://docs.servicestack.net/self-hosting#serve-static-files-from-your-project-path
5

My static files are in …\bin\debug\app\ folder, In console I see that the message is that WARN: Static File ‘/app/index.api.js’ not found in path: /app/index.api.js.

FileSystemVirtualPathProvider: C:\SomeService\bin\Debug

What could be wrong?

6

here is debug data if that helps

{
“Usage”:“append ‘?debug=requestinfo’ to any querystring. Optional params: virtualPathCount”,
“Host”:"_v4.58_SomeService",
“HostType”:“SelfHost (AppHost)”,
“StartedAt”:“2017-05-09 03:11:11”,
“Date”:“2017-05-09 03:14:22”,
“ServiceName”:“SomeService”,
“HandlerFactoryPath”:“SomeService”,
“UserHostAddress”:"::1",
“HttpMethod”:“GET”,
“PathInfo”:"/",
“ResolvedPathInfo”:"/",
“StripApplicationVirtualPath”:true,
“GetPathUrl”:“http://localhost/SomeService”,
“AbsoluteUri”:“http://localhost/SomeService?debug=requestinfo”,
“ApplicationBaseUrl”:“http://localhost/SomeService”,
“ResolveAbsoluteUrl”:“http://localhost/SomeService/resolve”,
“RootDirectoryPath”:“C:\SomeService\bin\Debug”,
“CurrentDirectory”:“C:\SomeService\bin\Debug”,
“RawUrl”:"/SomeService?debug=requestinfo",
“Status”:0,
“ContentLength”:0,
“Headers”:{
“DNT”:“1”,
“Connection”:“Keep-Alive”,
“Accept”:“text/html, application/xhtml+xml, image/jxr, /”,
“Accept-Encoding”:“gzip, deflate”,
“Accept-Language”:“en-US,en;q=0.5”,
“Cookie”:“ss-pid=DxA097v2agyJKldOdqxh; ss-opt=temp; X-UAId=0”,
“Host”:“localhost”,
“User-Agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36 Edge/15.15063”
},
“QueryString”:{
“debug”:“requestinfo”
},
“FormData”:{

},
“AcceptTypes”:[
“text/html”,
“application/xhtml+xml”,
“image/jxr”,
“/”
],
“OperationName”:“SomeService”,
“ResponseContentType”:“text/html”,
“RequestAttributes”:“Localhost, InSecure, HttpGet”,
“Ipv4Addresses”:“XXX.XXX.XXX.XX/255.255.0.0, 192.168.1.43/255.255.255.0, XXX.XXX.XXX.XX/255.255.0.0, 127.0.0.1/255.0.0.0”,
“Ipv6Addresses”:"",
“DebugString”:"",
“PluginsLoaded”:[
“HtmlFormat”,
“CsvFormat”,
“MarkdownFormat”,
“PredefinedRoutesFeature”,
“MetadataFeature”,
“NativeTypesFeature”,
“HttpCacheFeature”,
“RequestInfoFeature”,
“SessionFeature”,
“AuthFeature”,
“SessionFeature”,
“SwaggerFeature”,
“CorsFeature”
],
“StartUpErrors”:[

],
“AsyncErrors”:[

],
“Stats”:{
“RawHttpHandlers”:“6”,
“PreRequestFilters”:“0”,
“RequestBinders”:“0”,
“GlobalRequestFilters”:“2”,
“GlobalResponseFilters”:“2”,
“CatchAllHandlers”:“5”,
“Plugins”:“13”,
“ViewEngines”:“1”,
“RequestTypes”:“91”,
“ResponseTypes”:“48”,
“ServiceTypes”:“16”,
“RestPaths”:“96”,
“ContentTypes”:“5”,
“EnableFeatures”:“All”,
“VirtualPathProvider”:"[FileSystemVirtualPathProvider: C:\SomeService\bin\Debug], [ResourceVirtualPathProvider: SomeService.Host], [ResourceVirtualPathProvider: ServiceStack], [ResourceVirtualPathProvider: ServiceStack.Api.Swagger]"
},
“VirtualPathProviderFiles”:[

]
}

7

I’m assuming something external in the environment, maybe file permission problems?

Does your file get listed when you add a virtualPathCount? e.g:

?debug=requestinfo&virtualPathCount=100

Also are you able to download the filter through a service? e.g:

[Route("/files/{Path*}")]
public class DownloadFile 
{
    public string Path { get; set; ]
}

public object Any(DownloadFile request)
{
    var file = VirtualFileSources.GetFile(request.Path); 
    return new HttpResult(file);
}

then call with:

/files/app/index.api.js
8

When I add VirtualPathCount=1000 then the files are listed.