is not a file

[philiahe]

redis-live logs:

W 180128 06:37:21 web:1588] 403 GET / (192.168.199.176): is not a file
[W 180128 06:37:21 web:2064] 403 GET / (192.168.199.176) 7.88ms

web:

[1scrooge]

@skreuzer Do you have any ideas?

[starkmsu]

@philiahe , we faced the same problem. Any fixes/workarounds since that time?

[starkmsu]

This message source is from here - https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/blob/f6e98e279bf78d2984351062906eb100a7303c35/tornado/web.py#L2549

[starkmsu]

Seems like we were missing /index.html at the end of the url :-) - that's the root cause.

[skreuzer]

It looks like the issue is that 'default_filename" needs to be passed to StaticFileHandler.
I believe this issue should be fixed in PR #99