Basically, this is what my app does:
It sends an AJAX request
The server creates a file
The server sends back the URL of the
file location
The client-side will attempt to
create a dialog to download the file
at that location (probably using a
frame? I haven't got this far yet).
My question is, how do I dynamically route to the files I create so that they are accessible when you browse to them? If I don't add a route for them, then they will get a 404 if they try and access the directory they're in.
The files are currently stored in a folder in public.
Would the best way to deal with this make the folder somehow not require a route, so that it can be browsed to directly, and then have an index page on it so they can't view the full list of files? If so, please let me know how I can accomplish this. And on a side note, if you have an idea of how I can accomplish JS displaying the download dialog let me know.
It's Rails 3 by the way.
Thanks!
For a full private set of files: choose a place for your files outside your public directory, then configure X-SendFile support in your web server and finally use send_file in your rails application.
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Individual Folder create for each user when they register on website outside the webroot folder.I am able to upload the image and store Image path in database.However,I am unable to display the Image. I am trying to get the path of Image from database using LINQ and display in VIEW but it does not work. I can view only one(from the list of Image)Image when FILESTREAM the image path and retrun using FILESTREAMRESULT
Can anyone please guide me how to achieve it? All I want to do is create folder for each respective user when they register in external folder. Upload Image and display.
Typically, I would keep files in a secure database or within the application's subfolders. But, here's what I would suggest if you really need to access a different folder on the server.
Create a folder on your server's file system ahead of time.
On the server, assign permissions to that folder so that the identity used by your application can access it.
In your code, write code to access the folder and file path.
Hope that helps!
p.s. here's another Q&A on StackOverflow (with some words of warning) in which the second part of the answer is similar to what I suggested.
ASP.NET - Reading and writing to the file-system, outside the application
I have changed all the URLs of my website. (Domain is the same. For example: http://www.example.com/category/sample ----> http://www.example.com/Category/Sample)
Now it seems to have lots of 404 pages that are effecting my SEO.
What should I do to solve this problem? Any suggestion?
Thank you
You can proceed with changing the Context root for your website. Context roots determine the URL of any web-application.
Click here for a short article for making changes to context-roots.
The process may change based on the Server you are using.
Just create sitemap.xml file. There are many online sites available that will create free sitemap.xml file. Just you have to submit your website url and within few seconds they will generate sitemap.xml file. Download this sitemap.xml file and place it into your root directory. When crawler run through your website it will automatically update your all links and within few days you will see all updated links are present in search resulting page like google search engine.
Note: Also, dont forget to update sitemap.xml file path in robot.txt file.
I have used paperclip to allow me to upload files to a rails application. Everything works and the file is uploaded, but instead of seeing a link to the actual file itself I see the location of it within the systems folder of the rails project.
I'm guessing its either a routing issue or I need to create a link to the file in question. However, I would like to hide the location of the file itself, and only see the link displayed.
I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction here.
You want to hide the actual path of the file in the server, right?
You can achieve that using send_file (http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/DataStreaming.html#method-i-send_file) in a normal controller.
You will still need to do something to protect the download using the real path.
in my application I have to periodically download reports from an external service. The basic structure is a few folders, each containing it's own index.html with css and images.
Where should I put those folders in order to my users be able to access it? I will provide the url, no need to list files.
Assuming you want to put that other content in your app, it goes in the public folder within your application.
If I have a file in my app like this:
public/external/index.html
Then end users should see it when they hit:
http://application.com/external/
...without invoking any of your application's code.
I have an application where I allow my users to upload a file of any type. I save this in the file system on the server. The application will only be accessed by two users, so I don't need to worry about uploading any dodgy files.
How do I allow my user to press a button on an MVC form to request the file be sent back via the browser and be presented with the standard save/open dialog?
I want to return any type of file, and the example I've found always specify the type of file being returned. Is there a simple example of this?
See FileResult and derived classes.
An alternative approach is to set HttpContext.Response.ContentType to the proper mimetype and then writing the contents of the file with HttpContext.Response.OutputStream.Write ().
Useful if, for example, the data is not in a local file but stored in a database as a binary blob.