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Former-commit-id: af61c47c0462ec4b8d3699e3798c215a3feceb92

doc.go

@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ Static Files
 
 Example code:
 
+
       package main
 
       import (
@@ -392,8 +393,6 @@ Example code:
       	"gopkg.in/kataras/iris.v6/adaptors/httprouter"
       )
 
-      // if your ide cannot find the ./static folder try to build that program and after execute it
-      // or try to download & run this example via LiteIDE.
       func main() {
 
       	app := iris.New()
@@ -407,7 +406,7 @@ Example code:
       	// This will serve the ./static/favicons/iris_favicon_32_32.ico to: 127.0.0.1:8080/favicon_32_32.ico
 
       	app.Get("/", func(ctx *iris.Context) {
-      		ctx.HTML(iris.StatusOK, "You should see the favicon now at the side of your browser, if not please refresh or clear the browser's cache.")
+      		ctx.HTML(iris.StatusOK, "You should see the favicon now at the side of your browser.")
       	})
 
       	app.Listen(":8080")

fs.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package iris
 import (
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 )
@@ -42,6 +43,16 @@ func toWebPath(systemPath string) string {
 	return webpath
 }
 
+// abs calls filepath.Abs but ignores the error and
+// returns the original value if any error occured.
+func abs(path string) string {
+	absPath, err := filepath.Abs(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return path
+	}
+	return absPath
+}
+
 // NewStaticHandlerBuilder returns a new Handler which serves static files
 // supports gzip, no listing and much more
 // Note that, this static builder returns a Handler
@@ -52,7 +63,7 @@ func toWebPath(systemPath string) string {
 // structure and want a fluent api to work on.
 func NewStaticHandlerBuilder(dir string) StaticHandlerBuilder {
 	return &fsHandler{
-		directory: http.Dir(dir),
+		directory: http.Dir(abs(dir)),
 		// default route path is the same as the directory
 		requestPath: toWebPath(dir),
 		// enable strip path by-default

router.go

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Edit your main .go source file to adapt one of these routers and restart your ap
 
 		// the rest of your source code...
 		// ...
-		
+
 		app.Listen("%s")
 	}
 
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ func (router *Router) StaticServe(systemPath string, requestPath ...string) Rout
 
 // StaticContent serves bytes, memory cached, on the reqPath
 // a good example of this is how the websocket server uses that to auto-register the /iris-ws.js
-func (router *Router) StaticContent(reqPath string, cType string, content []byte) RouteInfo { // func(string) because we use that on websockets
+func (router *Router) StaticContent(reqPath string, cType string, content []byte) RouteInfo {
 	modtime := time.Now()
 	h := func(ctx *Context) {
 		if err := ctx.SetClientCachedBody(StatusOK, content, cType, modtime); err != nil {
@@ -504,6 +504,8 @@ func (router *Router) StaticEmbedded(requestPath string, vdir string, assetFn fu
 //
 // panics on error
 func (router *Router) Favicon(favPath string, requestPath ...string) RouteInfo {
+	favPath = abs(favPath)
+
 	f, err := os.Open(favPath)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(errDirectoryFileNotFound.Format(favPath, err.Error()))