How can I serve as embedded static content on Heroku?

Question

I have a rails application with static content in the public directory (e.g. public/index.html ) and additional static content in nested subdirectories (e.g. public/one/two/index.html ).

All static content is served correctly if I run it locally via script/server , but when I load it into Heroku at the top -level loads correctly, but the embedded content returns 404.

I found several resources (like this question ) that discuss static content on rails, but they all seem to take a pretty simple structure with one directory containing all the files.

Can this be fixed?

Answer 1

If you have a very simple web application (mostly static content, say), then using Sinatra on Heroku is much easier to configure and prevent this type of problem.

Answer 2

You can serve static content on Heroku without writing any “codes” at all ... you just need to specify the “Rack” middleware where the content is located (as described in this help article):

http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/static-sites-on-heroku