Aliased directories and requests to / should return /index.html

[zachleat]

I figured it out – if the directory that is the target of a passthrough copy has subdirectories, the files do get served if you go to them directly, e.g. the URL http://localhost:8080/mobile-wiki/index.html will serve the index.html file. But the URLs http://localhost:8080/mobile-wiki and http://localhost:8080/mobile-wiki/ will not serve the index.html file if the passthrough copy behavior is "passthrough". Not sure if that qualifies as a bug, but definitely had me chasing this down for a while.

Edit: Just noticed that this behavior can be reproduced in a simpler setting: 1. Make a passthrough rule that copies a directory, e.g. dir, over, and 2. make sure it has an index.html file inside it. Then if the copy behavior is "passthrough", visiting dir/ will 404 while visiting dir/index.html will not, but if copy behavior is "copy" then both will work.

11ty/eleventy#2739 (comment)

cc @yurivish

[yurivish]

Thanks for filing this!

I also noticed that some other URLs to static passthrough copies don't resolve – e.g. on the site I was working on, http://localhost:8080/cardcrafting/img_2x/2015-08-17%2014.19.27.jpg is a 404 even though the file exists. I think it's probably the space between the date and time, encoded as %20.

I get an error ("Cannot GET /cardcrafting/img_2x/2015-08-17%2014.19.27.jpg") with the dev server by default, but can get the image to load by putting the following ine in my config:

eleventyConfig.setServerPassthroughCopyBehavior("copy");

[zachleat]

I believe the second issue @yurivish is tracked at #59. The first issue seems to be resolved with Dev Server 2.0.0.