application URL prefixes in the File Column plug-in

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I love this plugin (I'm able to get it working mostly) but I'm running into an issue with using it in an application with an mongrel/apache specified application level URL prefix. This is a problem for both uploading and viewing the file once it has been loaded. I was able to (manually or via 2b below) load it but then the hyperlink File Column created was still missing the prefix. It generated the following URL:

http://mydomain.com/people/photo/4/picture.name.jpg   instead of http://mydomain.com/PREFIX/people/photo/4/picture.name.jpg

Is there an easy way to modify (a helper function? variables in environment.rb ?) code to get File Column to recognize the prefix? Is this a rail's wide prefix that I could set?

Additionally I'm wishing that there were a way to define my prefix in just one place, currently, running a rails application in a subdirectory on the server requires no less than 3 modifications (for me):

1) ProxyPass /PREFIX http://127.0.0.1:8000/PREFIX (in apache)

2) a)    prefix: /PREFIX (in mongrel_cluster.yml)    OR b)   ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = "/PREFIX" (in environment.rb) PLUS symbolic links in my public folder

3) all of the hard coded links in my app/views/shared/_header html file for example: <a href="/PREFIX/people">people</a>

There has to be an easier, more elegant way. Anybody know of one?

Thanks,

Dave

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I just realized that using rails' relative_url_root (2b below) does fix problem 3 as well... and the public folder symbolic link work around (detailed here: http://www.ralree.info/2006/6/15/successful-settings-for-apache-forwarding-to-mongrel) salvages half of file column's functionality (namely: uploading).

But my main problem of *reading* these uploaded files remains. The URL that File_Column generates still doesn't include the proper prefix.

Any ideas? Is there any easy way I can get File_Column to use ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root that I set in environement.rb?

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dschruth wrote:

But my main problem of *reading* these uploaded files remains. The URL that File_Column generates still doesn't include the proper prefix.

Any ideas? Is there any easy way I can get File_Column to use ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root that I set in environement.rb?

Have you looked into File Column's :base_url option?

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Ah ha,

Yes, in file_column.rb