Render html file inside a page

Kirby 2 Questions 🤔
1

Hi,
I’m currently using kirby for a creative computing and network culture class and I would like to use my current website to share with my prof the exercises we are doing in class. What I would like to achieve is fairly easy but I just can’t figure out how to do it… I just want to render some sort of single page website that contains a css, a js and an img folder so the structure would be similar to a one page website. Here’s the structure of the folder.

/content
   /cart-211
        /1-exercise-1
            /css
            /img
             index.html
             exercise.txt
        /2-exercise-2
        ...

The folder structure must be configured exactly this way and the href inside index.html must remain as untouched as possible. I have tried the solution proposed in this solution but all I get is a blank page. I also tried

 $page->file('index.html')->show();

which renders the page but I’m stuck at trying to map the other files to the html. Could someone please assist me in achieving what I’m trying to do

2

How do you reference the styles/images in your index.hml?

It should actually work like this for the styles:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="exercise-1/css/styles.css">

The same should actually work for images:

<img src="excercise-1/img/someimage.jpg" alt="">

i.e. if you use links relative to the current page.

But what is the whole point of this structure? Why use an index.html file?

3

You could go the art directed post route, above the call to the html file.

4

Not if you want to call your css in the index.html file, that’s only possible in the php template.

5

hrefing like this returns a 400 error unfortunately, my guess is that the browser is trying to fetch from cart-211/exercises/exercise-1, but cart-211 does not exist at the root of the folder. I found a workaround with

 $url = $page->file('index.html')->url();
 header('Location:' . $url);

Although it is definitely not the prettiest solution as the url reveals the internal structure of my website, it is satisfactory for me as there are probably only a couple of people who is going to check my website. However, I am open to other suggestion or try better solution.

Also, the idea of using an index.html is to ‘simulate’ the structure of a website with each exercises folder being the root folder of the website.

6

But wouldn’t that only make sense if the user would actually see the internal structure of the website? Which is not the case here, because what the visitor sees is a URL that displays some content, no index.hml in the URL.

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t really get the point of this. Unless maybe the user could then download the files and install on their own server as is.