Route to static folder (to browse files)

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Hi -

I want to enable access to a directory inside my app's public folder. This means that when a user will navigate to 应用宝官网-全网最新最热手机应用游戏下载, he will actually be accessing the root of RAILS_ROOT/public/files. This folder will contain static files, and doesn't really need any controller/actions - mostly to be used as a static file server (js, css) for another app.

I'm trying to accomplish that through the routes.rb file, but so far w/o success. Is it possible?

Thanks!

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Hey,

That shouldn’t need any modification to your routes. Unless you have a very peculiar setup, files from your ./public/ directory are automatically served as static.

RAILS_ROOT/public/files/some_file.pdf

Should be accessible as:

http://myapp.com/files/some_file.pdf

Regards, Gustav Paul

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One additional note here for Apache users: it is pretty standard to turn off the "browsing" feature on directories. If your virtual host configuration allows for it you can override this option on a per directory basis with .htaccess files.

To enable: Options Indexes

To disable: Options -Indexes