Serve homepage and static content from root

Question

In Golang, how do I serve static content out of the root directory while still having a root directory handler for serving the homepage.

Use the following simple web

Answer 1

An alternative (not using ServeMux) solution is to serve explicitly each file located in the root directory. The idea behind is to keep the number of root-based files very small. sitemap.xml, favicon.ico, robots.txt are indeed mandated to be served out of the root :

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
)

func HomeHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "HomeHandler")
}

func serveSingle(pattern string, filename string) {
    http.HandleFunc(pattern, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        http.ServeFile(w, r, filename)
    })
}

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/", HomeHandler) // homepage

    // Mandatory root-based resources
    serveSingle("/sitemap.xml", "./sitemap.xml")
    serveSingle("/favicon.ico", "./favicon.ico")
    serveSingle("/robots.txt", "./robots.txt")

    // Normal resources
    http.Handle("/static", http.FileServer(http.Dir("./static/")))

    http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

Please move all other resources (CSS, JS, etc.) to a proper subdirectory, e.g. /static/ .