Ticket #614 (defect)

In response to #607 you suggested upgrading to 3.0.0RC1, because under this version the test configuration specified in that ticket would work. I have upgraded but the configuration still doesn't work for me. And looking deeper into the code, I don't understand how it can be working for you.

Here is the code I'm now using:

import cherrypy
from cherrypy import _cpdispatch

class Root:
     pass

conf = {'/': {'server.socket_port': 80,
              'request.dispatch': _cpdispatch.VirtualHost(
                                    **{'mpp.net': '/mpp'}),
              'tools.staticdir.root': '/home/user/sites',
              },
        '/mpp': {'tools.staticdir.on': True,
                 'tools.staticdir.index': 'index.htm',
                 'tools.staticdir.dir': 'mpp'
                 }
        }

cherrypy.quickstart(Root(), '/', config = conf)

With this code, when I browse to http://mpp.net/index.htm, vhost_dispatch in _cpdispatch.VirtualHost? correctly prepends '/mpp' to a path_info variable of '/index.htm'. But when staticdir later constructs a branch variable, it doesn't draw upon the path_info variable as reconstructed by _cpdispatch; instead it works with the value of that variable stored in cherrypy.request.path_info, which (at least for me) is still just '/index.htm'. So staticdir ends up setting the branch variable to 'x.htm', meaning of course that cherrypy fails to find the resulting filename.

Or maybe I'm just failing to understand how properly to set up my configuration?