Question about downloading files that were uploaded

[grenadier42]

I have a question. If a user uploads a file (an image called myprettypony.bmp, let's say) to my site, which gets placed in the public/data directory, how do I go about making it so that people can write html like, "[fakehtmlbracket]img src="(AechTeeTeePee)IPADDRESSHERE:3000/public/data/myprettypony.bmp"[fakehtmlendbracket]"? Currently I get a routing error, because no route exists for public/data. How could I make this work so that the link goes through and the image is displayed on the page that the user is linking from? It may just be an idiotically simple route, but...

Hmm, Sitepoint doesn't allow html brackets for me! (yet.)

[flashparry]

Is your public/data directory within your website directory, e.g htdocs? If so, and you have a dir structure like:

htdocs/public/data/

then your example would work.

If the public/data directory lies outside of the website directory then you're not going to be able to reference it in a URL. If you have access, you could create a shortcut/link inside you website directory to the public/data directory - depends on the OS of the webserver.

If you're still having problems, could you let us know your directory structure and I might be able to help further.

P.S. To display html tags in a post, select your html and click the # icon in the editor to mark it as code.

[grenadier42]

shovell (my application) ->
     app
     config
     data
     db
     doc
     lib
     log
     public ->
          data ->
               Files I'm trying to access
     Rakefile
     README
     script
     test
     tmp
     vendor

I run Ubuntu Linux.

I'm trying to access file "logo_Ubuntu.png" in my "public/data" directory, so I type:

(H)(T)(T)(P)://MY_INTERNAL_IP:3000/public/data/logo_Ubuntu.png

Then I get a routing error. Am I trying to access the file incorrectly?

Now I'm thinking I may have screwed something up in the routes.rb file, so...

ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map|
  map.connect '', :controller => "story"
  map.connect ':controller/service.wsdl', :action => 'wsdl'
  map.story 'story/show/:permalink',
    :controller => 'story',
    :action => 'show'  
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
end

Yup, it's Shovell again.

THE HUMILIATION! IT HURTS!

[samsm]

Remove "public".

MY_INTERNAL_IP:3000/data/logo_Ubuntu.png

[grenadier42]

...

Wow, I'm a freakin' idiot.

That worked. I remember that I was going to do that in the first place, but I forgot.

Wow. Every thread I make ends in my stupidity.