Absolute paths in c.File don't work anymore #2922

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1. aldas commented on Mar 21, 2026

   

   aldas

   on Mar 21, 2026

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   in v5 e.Filesystem is confined to current working directory
   If you want to have similar behaviour like v4 did you need to do

   e.Filesystem = os.DirFS("/")
2. zoriya commented on Mar 21, 2026

   

   zoriya

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   That still doesn't work for absolute paths. c.File("/dir/my-file.txt") will return a NotFound but c.File("dir/my-file.txt") will work.
3. aldas commented on Mar 29, 2026

   

   aldas

   on Mar 29, 2026

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   I'll update the website and the relevant field/function documentation to clarify that leading / slashes should not be used. In v5 this aligns better how modern Go fs.FS implementations behave, and Echo v4 was using/mirroring os.Open, which is now little bit disfavored when it comes to serving files.
4. aldas

   closed this as completedon Mar 29, 2026