# HG changeset patch
# User egj@egj-laptop
# Date 1262550974 18000
# Node ID c17595c824a75cdfdb18f7cb0f7b13d4ac0cb065
# Parent  d2e519a2f13c7da1185d6d3ee0cf07421c4d2caa
try to fail gracefully if index.html exists

diff -r d2e519a2f13c -r c17595c824a7 decoupage/web.py
--- a/decoupage/web.py	Sun Jan 03 19:45:21 2010 +0000
+++ b/decoupage/web.py	Sun Jan 03 15:36:14 2010 -0500
@@ -122,9 +122,11 @@
 
         # render the template
         template = conf.get('/template')
+        local_index = False 
         if template is None:
             if 'index.html' in [ f['name'] for f in files ]:
-                template = os.path.join(directory, 'index.html')
+                local_index = os.path.join(directory, 'index.html')
+                template = local_index
             else:
                 template = self.template
         else:
@@ -140,7 +142,13 @@
                         raise IOError("template %s not found" % template)
                 
         template = self.loader.load(template)
-        res = template.generate(**data).render('html', doctype='html')
+        try:
+            res = template.generate(**data).render('html', doctype='html')
+        except TemplateSyntaxError:
+            if local_index:
+                return self.fileserver(local_index)
+            raise
+
         return self.get_response(res)
 
     ### internal methods