I am a novice at go programming. I followed this (https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/) tutorial. I wanted to build on top of this a site with multiple pages and CSS elements.
In the main method I used
http.Handle("/css/", http.StripPrefix("/css/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("css"))))
This is my makeHandler function. It is supposed to direct all requests to the correct handler.
func makeHandler( fn func( http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request, string)) http.HandlerFunc{
return func( w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request ){
//extract page title from request
//and call the provided handler 'fn'
m := validPath.FindStringSubmatch(r.URL.Path)
fmt.Println(m)
if m == nil{
http.NotFound(w,r)
return
}
fn(w,r,m[2])
}
}
When I printed 'm', all the requests were prefixed by view (I have a viewHandler that is then called to render the templates).
http.HandleFunc("/view/", makeHandler(viewHandler))
So if I wanted to view an aboutSite page, the url would have /view/aboutSite which would then be directed to viewHandler.
The issue is that the html templates have CSS links and the links are being prefixed by 'view' as well. So if I had this line of code in my html template
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.min.css">
makeHandler would receive a 'view' prefixed url. /view/css/bootstrap.min.css
what do I need to add/change so that the CSS elements are rendered?