How to download a copied file to the Upload folder

[Luis Sucuc]

Hello! The previous programmer copied files directly into the Uploads folder, I need to be able to download them now but using the following does not work.

My view

<a class="btn btn-circle btn-default btn-sm" href="{{=URL('administrator','download', args='document.docx')}}">

   <i class="fa fa-download"></i>

</a>

In administrator.py

@cache.action()

def download():

   return response.download(request, db)

The application is already in production, I can not change the way to "upload" the files.

[黄祥]

not sure, fully understand what you want to achieve it, think you want to have the files in uploads folder, then why not remote the server then copy it via terminal (rsync, scp, etc) ?

if you want to do it in web2py way perhaps you can try :

http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/14/other-recipes#Publishing-a-folder

not sure the 'web2py' download function can fulfilled what you want.

best regards,

stifan