normalize/make-absolute the paths passed into StaticURLParser

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/news.txt b/docs/news.txt
index 8bf3ed6..cb0ec15 100644
--- a/docs/news.txt
+++ b/docs/news.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ News
 
 .. contents::
 
+svn trunk
+---------
+
+* Normalize and make absolute the paths passed to
+  :class:`paste.urlparser.StaticURLParser` (before passing a
+  relative-to-cwd path to that class would cause Forbidden errors).
+
 1.7
 ---
 
diff --git a/paste/urlparser.py b/paste/urlparser.py
index 530e9c4..a8268d5 100644
--- a/paste/urlparser.py
+++ b/paste/urlparser.py
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ class StaticURLParser(object):
                  cache_max_age=None):
         if os.path.sep != '/':
             directory = directory.replace(os.path.sep, '/')
-        self.directory = directory
+        self.directory = os.path.normcase(os.path.abspath(directory))
         self.root_directory = root_directory
         if root_directory is not None:
             self.root_directory = os.path.normpath(self.root_directory)