Thanks for the book. It's really helpful. I'm running into a problem, though, that maybe you know the answer to. I'm trying to set up private files, so I moved my files dir to ../../private_files/mysite/ and changed the setting on the file system page. I have a page with a list of pdfs which I generate by doing a directory scan in a custom module. (The files have been manually uploaded.) It seems to be working the way it should: the files are all listed, and have urls like http://mysite.com/system/files/docs/myfile.pdf. But when you click on one of the links, you get Page Not Found.
I've cleared the cache, and I thought it might have been a permissions issue, but private_files and everything below is set to 777. (Does it actually need to be that open?) The File System admin page gives all kinds of dire warnings about changing the privacy setting after the site has been running, which I've done, but isn't at all specific about what the problems might be. I could imagine they'd be with paths in uploaded files, but I'm not dealing with that here. Any other ideas?
TIA!
P.S. I'm on D5 for this project.
P.P.S. Ooooh! Duh! The files have to exist in the database in order for drupal to know anything about their permissions. Hmm.... that's a drag. I really want to have sub-directories for these files, which means I really don't want to use drupal's file upload system.
page not found?
Hi,
Thanks for the book. It's really helpful. I'm running into a problem, though, that maybe you know the answer to. I'm trying to set up private files, so I moved my files dir to ../../private_files/mysite/ and changed the setting on the file system page. I have a page with a list of pdfs which I generate by doing a directory scan in a custom module. (The files have been manually uploaded.) It seems to be working the way it should: the files are all listed, and have urls like http://mysite.com/system/files/docs/myfile.pdf. But when you click on one of the links, you get Page Not Found.
I've cleared the cache, and I thought it might have been a permissions issue, but private_files and everything below is set to 777. (Does it actually need to be that open?) The File System admin page gives all kinds of dire warnings about changing the privacy setting after the site has been running, which I've done, but isn't at all specific about what the problems might be. I could imagine they'd be with paths in uploaded files, but I'm not dealing with that here. Any other ideas?
TIA!
P.S. I'm on D5 for this project. P.P.S. Ooooh! Duh! The files have to exist in the database in order for drupal to know anything about their permissions. Hmm.... that's a drag. I really want to have sub-directories for these files, which means I really don't want to use drupal's file upload system.