How to i set this to service files from a directory

[theboyknowsclass]

is it possible to set it to serve plain html files from a '\static' directory say?

[deckerego]

You could - see https://github.com/deckerego/ampule/blob/main/examples/webserver/webpages.py as an example of how to retrieve files based on a GET request.

If you wanted to serve up a whole directory, you could create a handler from a base path (say static/) and then look at the request object to determine which file to serve.