How to serve static files from a different directory than the static path?

Question

I am trying this:

favicon_path = '/path/to/favicon.ico'  settings = {'debug': True,              'static_path': os.path.join(PATH, 'static')}  handlers = [(r'/', WebHandler),             (r'/favicon.ico', tornado.web.StaticFileHandler, {'path': favicon_path})]  application = tornado.web.Application(handlers, **settings) application.listen(port) tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start() 

But it keeps serving the favicon.ico that I have in my static_path (I have two different favicon.ico's in two separate paths, as indicated above, but I want to be able to override the one in the static_path).

Answer 1

You need to wrap favicon.ico with parenthesis and escape the period in the regular expression. Your code will become

favicon_path = '/path/to/favicon.ico' # Actually the directory containing the favicon.ico file  settings = {     'debug': True,      'static_path': os.path.join(PATH, 'static')}  handlers = [     (r'/', WebHandler),     (r'/(favicon\.ico)', tornado.web.StaticFileHandler, {'path': favicon_path})]  application = tornado.web.Application(handlers, **settings) application.listen(port) tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start() 

Answer 2

Delete static_path from the app settings.

Then set your handler like:

handlers = [             (r'/(favicon\.ico)', tornado.web.StaticFileHandler, {'path': favicon_path_dir}),             (r'/static/(.*)', tornado.web.StaticFileHandler, {'path': static_path_dir}),             (r'/', WebHandler) ]