Serving dynamic HTML files
John Duddy
reports. These reports are produced outside the static directory, but
I want the user to be able to browse them.
Is there a way I can tell web2py to serve those files like it does
static files? All the links in the HTML files are relative, so if I
can create a URL that web2py will use for the base HTML file, I think
it should work.
This is an intranet application, so security is not a big concern.
Thanks!
Richard Vézina
Anthony
I'm creating an app that runs external programs, which produce HTML
reports. These reports are produced outside the static directory, but
I want the user to be able to browse them.
John Duddy
to serve the file via web2py to the browser.
I suppose I could use this with response.stream, if I knew how to
parse the rest of the URL component below my controller....
On Nov 1, 12:17 pm, Richard Vézina <ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com>
wrote:
John Duddy
to those directories, making up a guid each time for the name. I was
hoping for a more elegant solution.
Anthony
Unfortunately, no. I might be able to create soft links under static
to those directories, making up a guid each time for the name. I was
hoping for a more elegant solution.
Anthony
That lets me read the URL from my web2py code, right? Instead, I want
to serve the file via web2py to the browser.
I suppose I could use this with response.stream, if I knew how to
parse the rest of the URL component below my controller....
~redShadow~
> If these are purely static files, why do you need web2py to serve
> them? Can't you set up your web server to serve them from where they
> are, or do you only have web2py's built-in server available (if so,
> maybe you can run a separate instance of Rocket using the fs
> method: http://packages.python.org/rocket/methods.html#fs)?
+1
Plus, if you are running web2py via apache, my suggestion is something
like this:
- Configure an alias (``Alias /reports /path/to/reports``) in the
virtualhost configuration
- Configure in your app that ``reports_url = "/reports/"`` and
``reports_path = "/path/to/reports"``
- Browse files into reports_path and then link them using
``posixpath.join(reports_url, 'path/to/file')``
[posixpath uses UNIX file names, so it joins using '/'; only on Unix
platforms (a part from macosx..?) os.path == posixpath]
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John Duddy
advance, as the user can add directories for the input (and output)
data at runtime via configuration. So, I need a fully dynamic solution
that I can tweak programmatically at runtime.
Your solution (creating links under a path served by Apache) is
similar to something I already tried (a path under static/).
What I'd really love is to be able to have a routes module I could
talk to from the controllers, or one that called a function in my
controller to get the file name to read given a URL.
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John Duddy
instance of rocket (mine) and tell it to serve more static files? I
could also do it via apache, if I could talk to apache and tell it to
serve from locations not listed in its config. I need to do this at
runtime, though.
Anthony
On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 11:53:05 AM UTC-4, John Duddy wrote:
These files can appear ANYWHERE on the file system. I do not know in
advance, as the user can add directories for the input (and output)
data at runtime via configuration. So, I need a fully dynamic solution
that I can tweak programmatically at runtime.
Your solution (creating links under a path served by Apache) is
similar to something I already tried (a path under static/).
What I'd really love is to be able to have a routes module I could
talk to from the controllers, or one that called a function in my
controller to get the file name to read given a URL.
~redShadow~
> Certainly there is s simpler way to talk to an already running
> instance of rocket (mine) and tell it to serve more static files? I
> could also do it via apache, if I could talk to apache and tell it to
> serve from locations not listed in its config. I need to do this at
> runtime, though.
To serve anything anywhere in the filesystem, you can do something like:
Alias /reports /
And then append the file path. Of course be aware of the risks of
letting users browse the whole filesystem..
If that's in a small intranet to which only trusted people can have
access, plus you tweak permissions on filesystem in order to limit where
the www-data user can have access, plus limit cgi/php/.. file execution
to only some locations, and maybe even add http authentication, this
could be a valid solution..
Better if you can restrict more the accessible path, eg. if your users
will create reports only in their home dirs, you can use something like:
Alias /reports /home
And maybe even limit which user can access which directory (there are
several ways to do this, depending on where you get the users, etc.)
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