Katana/Owin StaticFiles Usage Scenario

README.md

Directory layout:

.
├── bin
├── public
│   └── test.txt
├── packages.config
├── Startup.cs
├── Web.config
└── Project.csproj

Scenarios:

• When user goes to http://localhost:8080/ he should see a list of files in the ./public folder (OK, this works fine)
• When user goes to http://localhost:8080/test.txt he should see the contents of the ./public/test.txt file (Error 404, file not found)

packages.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
  <package id="Microsoft.Owin" version="3.0.0-beta1" targetFramework="net451" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Owin.FileSystems" version="3.0.0-beta1" targetFramework="net451" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb" version="3.0.0-beta1" targetFramework="net451" />
  <package id="Microsoft.Owin.StaticFiles" version="3.0.0-beta1" targetFramework="net451" />
  <package id="Owin" version="1.0" targetFramework="net451" />
</packages>

Startup.cs

using Microsoft.Owin;
using Microsoft.Owin.Extensions;
using Microsoft.Owin.FileSystems;
using Microsoft.Owin.StaticFiles;
using Owin;

[assembly: OwinStartup(typeof(Web.Startup))]

namespace Web
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
        {
            app.UseFileServer(new FileServerOptions
            {
                EnableDirectoryBrowsing = true,
                EnableDefaultFiles = false,
                FileSystem = new PhysicalFileSystem(".\\public")
            });
            app.UseStageMarker(PipelineStage.Authenticate);
        }
    }
}

web.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
  For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
  -->
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5.1" />
    <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.1" />
  </system.web>
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <remove name="StaticFile"/>
    </handlers>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>