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**Category:** Web Stack\
**Tags:** bonito\
**Created:** [December 16, 2024, 6:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bonito-serving-an-html-page/123872 "2024-12-16T06:29:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:**  [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 6:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bonito-serving-an-html-page/123872/1 "2024-12-16T06:29:21Z")
In Bonito.jl, how should I serve an HTML file? I would have expected
```julia
server = Server("0.0.0.0", 8080)
route!(server, "/" => title_page)
route!(server, "/documentation" => HTMLPage("/local/path/to/my/page.html")
```
but looking at the docs I couldn’t find anything. I guess I can create an `App` which opens the file and returns its content inside an `HTML()` but that’s very roundabout.
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**Author:**  [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bonito-serving-an-html-page/123872/2 "2024-12-16T11:02:02Z")
> [@cstjean](#):
>
> ```julia
> server = Server("0.0.0.0", 8080)
> route!(server, "/" => title_page)
> route!(server, "/documentation" => HTMLPage("/local/path/to/my/page.html")
>
> ```
Hm, that hasn’t been a use case so far, so I guess your workaround is the best option.
I guess one could implement `route!(server, "/" => Asset("../test.html"))`, by overloading:
```julia
function HTTPServer.apply_handler(app::Asset, context)
server = context.application
request = context.request
...
end
```
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**Author:**  [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 7:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bonito-serving-an-html-page/123872/3 "2024-12-17T07:37:24Z")
Thank you for the suggestion! I tried my hand at `HTML(read(my_file, String))`, but it’s turning out more complicated than I thought. I’m trying to serve Documenter.jl documentation output. I can serve the `.html` file I care about fine, but then its styling is all wrong, because I’m not also serving the Documenter.jl-generated files in `/docs/build/assets`. Maybe I could serve those as `Asset`? It’s a bit painful, but it looks like the simplest solution.
Otherwise, I guess I could set up an Apache Server to serve the `/docs/build` repository on a different port, and link to those pages. Or maybe go with Oxygen.jl? I don’t have any experience there, so any advice is appreciated.
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**Author:**  [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bonito-serving-an-html-page/123872/4 "2024-12-17T08:00:26Z")
LiveServer.jl is kinda neat and solves my problem in the short term, with a `localhost` link. Not sure it’ll work out once I’m on a server, but it’ll be worth a try!
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**Author:**  [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 10:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bonito-serving-an-html-page/123872/5 "2024-12-17T10:05:14Z")
> Otherwise, I guess I could set up an Apache Server to serve the `/docs/build` repository
You should be able to also serve a whole folder with Bonito.
Here is a prototype:
```julia
using Bonito
struct Folder
path::String
end
function Bonito.HTTPServer.apply_handler(folder::Folder, context)
target = context.request.target[2:end] # first should be '/' which we want to remove for a path
# Bonito.html is just a simple helper to return a HTTP html response
return Bonito.html(read(joinpath(folder.path, target)))
end
server = Server("0.0.0.0", 8080)
route!(server, r"/.*" => Folder(pwd()))
```
If you get it to work, a PR would be nice, since I guess others may want to have this functionality 😉