Hi there,
i want to embed a Quicktime-Movie on my Page. I use the following code:
<embed src="Z:/09002_R/client/090423_1730/RO.mov" width="200" height="240" autoplay="true">
Getting the file by an internet-adress erverything is fine, but it doesn't apply by using the path from my hard-disk.
Is their a special usage of describing path-names in rails?
Hi there,
i want to embed a Quicktime-Movie on my Page. I use the following code:
<embed src="Z:/09002_R/client/090423_1730/RO.mov" width="200" height="240" autoplay="true">
Getting the file by an internet-adress erverything is fine, but it doesn't apply by using the path from my hard-disk.
Well a file url looks something like this:
file:///Z:/09002_R/client/090423_1730/RO.mov
But if that works at all, it will only work on YOUR computer, or at least one which has that file in that place on a local Z disk.
I think that most browsers balk at such a URL anyway when it's received from a server.
Is their a special usage of describing path-names in rails?
If you want to serve up the file, you need to put it under the public directory, say in a movies subdirectory, and then use a path like
movies/movie_name.mov
I'm not sure what your directory structure means you could have a subdirectory structure under public/movies the point is that the url path should be relative to the public dir.
And what can i do, if the file is some "levels" higher than my public-folder. Is there a possibility to browse "back". I tried so much ... but nothing worked.
No, there isn't - barring sneaky stuff involving send_file, you'll need to put the file someplace that gets served to the web.
If you weren't on Windows, I'd suggest trying a symlink, but Windows doesn't support that.
--Matt Jones