Static assets under domain root

Anvil Q&A
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Hi everyone!

Is there a way to include a static file directly under an app domain root? For example https://my-app-domain.anvil.app/data.json

Thanks very much
Simon

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typically static assets might be stored as:

  • theme assets
  • media objects in a datatable.

to access the theme assets you can do
https://my-app-domain.anvil.app/_/theme/ data.json

linked docs:
https://anvil.works/docs/client/themes-and-styling#asset-file-url

it depends on the static asset I guess as to which one to chose…

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Hey @stucork, thanks very much for the reply!

I am specifically interested about the asset being located directly in the domain root, the reason being that I would like to experiment with including a web manifest and this needs to be in the domain root. Similar to the fixed location of favicon.ico which I see Anvil has special support for as a “Logo” under “Titles and Logos”. Would I be correct in assuming that this is not possible at the moment?

Thanks!

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I think (haven’t tried myself) that you can clone the repository to your pc, add a file to the root folder and push back to the server. The new file will sit there without problems.

But I think (again, haven’t tried myself) it will not be served as a static file because the Anvil server only serves static files from the _/theme directory, as suggested by @stucork .

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I have the same issue but for different case. A file need to be added into the root folder so loader.io can stress test the app

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Thanks for the tip. I gave this a try though and unfortunately I got a message to the effect of “app not found” :confused: