# Location of httpStatic
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/location-of-httpstatic/10649
**Category:** General
**Created:** [29 April 2019 17:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/location-of-httpstatic/10649 "2019-04-29T17:27:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)
#### Post date: [29 April 2019 17:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/location-of-httpstatic/10649/1 "2019-04-29T17:27:41Z")
I have set httpStatic: '/media/usbHDD/nas/', in my settings.js file everything is working fine however my question is can I retrieve this information in a function node.?
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [30 April 2019 04:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/location-of-httpstatic/10649/2 "2019-04-30T04:04:23Z")
A possible solution (not sure if there is another way) is to add a property to `functionGlobalContext` in `settings.js`. Then it can be easily retrieved in a function node.
It is a sort of double work (as you already created `httpStatic` entry in `settings.js` but it works.
Example:
```auto
functionGlobalContext: {
myStatic:'/home/andrei/node-red-static/',
```
Then recover with
```auto
var test1 = global.get('myStatic');
```
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [30 April 2019 05:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/location-of-httpstatic/10649/3 "2019-04-30T05:52:26Z")
I think that you should be able to do something like `mystatic: this.httpStatic` so you only set it once.
Alternatively, set a const outside the exports and use the value in both places.
If you are writing custom nodes, you can retrieve the values in settings.js but I don't know that you can otherwise.