Path for uploaded files

[m.gori]

Hello everyone,

problem: I have to upload files and make them donwloadable from within an OCS website.
They don't have to do with papers nor any other already-managed-stuff in OCS.
They're just plain files that I want to be "visible".

So the question is: how can I access files uploaded via the "Files browser" tool provided to administrators..?
In other words, if I have to insert an actual link to them inside the public website...
how can I resolve the relative path, how can I refer to them?
Is there any option or default configuration that I am missing in order to find this out?

Many thanks in advance for any suggestion

Marco

[jmacgreg]

Hi Marco,

When a conference manager uploads files with the Files Browser tool, they are actually stored in

ocspath/files/conferences/[conference#]/[optional created directory]/filename.txt.

So: when conference manager opens the Files Browser tool, they see "Index of /", with typically one directory (schedConfs) already in there. The CM can create a new directory here, say "publicFiles", and upload files into that directory (or, of course, create even more subdirs within that one). Say the CM uploads a file called campusmap.pdf. It can be linked to with the following code:

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<a href="http://mysite.com/ocs/files/conferences/1/publicFiles/campusmap.pdf">campus map</a>

Provided, of course, that this is conference 1 on the site.

Cheers,
James

[jmacgreg]

Hi Marco,

Actually, I've been corrected by Alec on the correct handling up submitting public files. The preferred method would be as follows:

The files in the "files" directory (the actual location of which is configured in config.inc.php) are considered private and shouldn't be accessible directly via the web. If anyone wants to be able to upload public files via the Files Browser, it's possible to do this by creating a symbolic link from the files path for the particular conference (e.g.
/path/to/files/conferences/1) to the public files directory. To do this, for example, run:

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ln -s /path/to/ocs2/public/conferences/1 /path/to/files/conferences/1/public

Then you should be able to use the Files Browser to upload files into the "public" directory for that conference (if the "files" directory, configured in config.inc.php, is "/path/to/files" and the OCS install is in "/path/to/ocs2").

Cheers,
James