Serving static content with a root URL with the Gorilla toolkit

Question

I am attempting to use the Gorilla toolkit\'s mux package to route URLs in a Go web server. Using this question as a guide I have the following Go code:

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Answer 1

After a lot of trial and error, both above answers helped me in coming up with what worked for me. I have static folder in web app's root directory.

Along with PathPrefix I had to use StripPrefix for getting route to work recursively.

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "github.com/gorilla/mux"
)

func main() {
    r := mux.NewRouter()
    s := http.StripPrefix("/static/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("./static/")))
    r.PathPrefix("/static/").Handler(s)
    http.Handle("/", r)
    err := http.ListenAndServe(":8081", nil)
}

I hope it helps somebody else having problems.