Serving files from web server

[debjanipaul]

I was able to follow the tutorial https://wave.h2o.ai/docs/files#serving-files-directly-from-the-wave-server and serve a file and access it from from my localhost. I want to know how do I do the same from the H2O app store. Do I have to configure the toml file and what parameters should I use for 'waved -public-dir /datasets/@/home/zaphod/data -public-dir /public/models/@/home/zaphod/models' in the toml file to replicate the same behavior?

[mturoci]

Paths need to be relative to Wave server binary location.

Solution

The following conf makes assets folder to be served from Wave server in app store:

# app.toml

[[Env]]
Name = "H2O_WAVE_PUBLIC_DIR"
Value = "/assets/@../../app/static/"

Note: The assets folder is assumed to reside in your app root.

Explanation

The Wave server is located at ../../app relative to the current working directory (where your app gets extracted) in app store.

A good candidate for docs update cc @mtanco.

[debjanipaul]

HI @mturoci, I am launching the local web server as:

 ./waved -public-dir /datasets/@/Users/<userID>/Documents/GitRepos/visualization_/geo_data

The geo_data folder is in the app root and has the geojson file. To point plotly to access the geojson file I am including the following line of code in my .py file:

counties = 'http://localhost:10101/datasets/geojson-counties-fips-mod.json

Do I need to have the geojson data inside assets folder or the current geo_data folder will work?

# Will this work in the app.toml

[[Env]]
Name = "H2O_WAVE_PUBLIC_DIR"
Value = "/geo_data/@../../app/static/"

To access the geo_json data in .py file, will this work?

counties = 'http://companyURL.com/geo_data/geojson-counties-fips-mod.json

[mturoci]

It's hard to guess your project structure, but it seems you need to try using /geo_data/@../../app/geo_data/ as a value (if the geodata folder is in the root of your project dir).

If you wish, you can also put the geo_data into a static folder and use the code you suggested in the previous comment.