Static files in Flask - robot.txt, sitemap.xml (mod_wsgi)

Question

Is there any clever solution to store static files in Flask\'s application root directory. robots.txt and sitemap.xml are expected to be found in /, so my idea was to create

Answer 1

The cleanest answer to this question is the answer to this (identical) question:

from flask import Flask, request, send_from_directory
app = Flask(__name__, static_folder='static')    

@app.route('/robots.txt')
@app.route('/sitemap.xml')
def static_from_root():
    return send_from_directory(app.static_folder, request.path[1:])

To summarize:

• as David pointed out, with the right config it's ok to serve a few static files through prod
• looking for /robots.txt shouldn't result in a redirect to /static/robots.txt. (In Seans answer it's not immediately clear how that's achieved.)
• it's not clean to add static files into the app root folder
• finally, the proposed solution looks much cleaner than the adding middleware approach: