Can't serve static files from cherrypy

Question

I'm starting to learn cherrypy but I've run in to a roadblock. I can't get static files to save my life. I'm getting a 404. The path '/static' was not found. I've googled however have yet to find a solution. All I want to do is serve files at http://localhost:8080/static

Suggetions?

import os
import cherrypy

class Root(object):
    @cherrypy.expose
    def index(self):
        pass

config = {
    '/static':{
    'tools.staticdir.on': True,
    'tools.staticdir.dir': os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static')
    }
}

cherrypy.tree.mount(Root(), '/', config = config)
cherrypy.engine.start()

Answer 1

Some ideas:

1. In CherryPy 3.2+, try tools.staticdir.debug = True, combined with log.screen = True or some other more preferred logging setup. That will help more than anything I can guess at in this answer.
2. Try tools.staticdir.dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static')); it needs to be absolute (or, if .dir is not absolute, then tools.staticdir.root needs to be).
3. In CherryPy 3.1 and above, you usually need to call engine.block() after engine.start().