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Jorge estévez	Tuesday 23 March 2010 5:30:42 am I have a file at /var (tryed with files of type .txt .pdf .csv) When I try to Get that file (I supose it will try to download it) via www.mysite.com/var/THEFILE.XXX it comes up with the Module Not found How can I get files from the var directory? Diseño Web Cuba Web Design Cuba www.elfosdesign.com
Peter Keung	Tuesday 23 March 2010 8:31:49 am Part of the standard rewrite rule set is: RewriteRule ^/var/storage/.* - [L] RewriteRule ^/var/[^/]+/storage/.* - [L] This facilitates you placing files to download in the var/storage directory (or in sub-folders of the var/storage directory). http://www.mugo.ca Mugo Web, eZ Partner in Vancouver, Canada
Bertrand Dunogier	Tuesday 23 March 2010 11:51:56 am Peter's answer will indeed solve the issue, but you should be careful, though, as using this will make any file in var/ available publicly, while they're usually downloaded using the content/download script. If you have a known pattern for these files, you could limit the rewrite rule: RewriteRule ^/var/[^/]+/storage/THEFILE\.XXX - [L] Bertrand Dunogier eZ Systems Engineering, Lyon http://twitter.com/bdunogier http://gplus.to/BertrandDunogier
Kristof Coomans	Tuesday 23 March 2010 1:10:03 pm Why not changing the rewrite rules suggested in the documentation, to something more secure? Also see http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_x/installation/virtual_host_setup#comment17679 I'm pretty sure there is an issue about this also in the issue tracker, can't find it back though (might be because I don't see security issues anymore). independent eZ Publish developer and service provider \| http://blog.coomanskristof.be \| http://ezpedia.org
Nicolas Pastorino	Wednesday 24 March 2010 4:18:27 am " Why not changing the rewrite rules suggested in the documentation, to something more secure? " Good point yes. Pushing this to engineering. Thanks Kristof -- Nicolas Pastorino Director Community - eZ Member of the Community Project Board eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye G+ : http://plus.tl/jeanvoye