Including static files with no extension

Chris David Miles
(@chrisdavidmiles)

2 years, 8 months ago

How do I include static files that have no file extension?

_redirects and _headers files are used by Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, etc to server side rules.
~/_redirects to set server side redirect rules
~/_headers to set server side header rules

The debug log shows that the content type is being detected correctly, but since these files don’t have file extensions they are being treated like html pages https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simply-static/tags/2.2.7/src/class-ss-url-fetcher.php#L181

and that is producing filenames not recognized by those platforms:
~/_redirects/index.html
~/_headers/index.html

How can I include these and other files while keeping the filenames the same? Is there a filter I can use, or something else?

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Plugin Support Igor Benic
(@ibenic)

2 years, 8 months ago

Hi @chrisdavidmiles, we have implemented a way to include such files when adding them in the option Additional directories/files under Settings > Includes/Excludes.

Does that not work for you?

Thread Starter Chris David Miles
(@chrisdavidmiles)

2 years, 8 months ago

Right, that’s what I’m using to include the files.

When I do, if the file does not contain a file extension (.txt, .jpg, etc) then those files are being treated like html pages and that is producing incorrect filenames.

For example ~/_redirects gets changed to ~/_redirects/index.html because it’s being treated like an html page and not a file.

~/robots.txt works as expected, because it has a filename.

But files without filenames seem to be processed as html pages: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simply-static/tags/2.2.7/src/class-ss-url-fetcher.php#L181

So I’m asking for a way to preserve the file names of included individual files that have no file extension such as ~/_redirects or ~/_headers or ~/pgp-key . How can I include these and other files while preserving the original filenames?

Thread Starter Chris David Miles
(@chrisdavidmiles)

2 years, 8 months ago

There’s a typo in what I said. I meant to say:

~/robots.txt works as expected, because it has a file extension. (.txt in that case)

Thread Starter Chris David Miles
(@chrisdavidmiles)

2 years, 7 months ago

Discussion has moved to github: https://github.com/Simply-Static/simply-static/issues/138

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