save/open file from other drive

[edwinayin@qq.com]

Hello everyone,

All of my generated PDF files and user's attachments (doc, png etc.) are currently saved under the server folder. I am trying to move everything to another drive (etc..d drive) and my website should be able to read files from the new location.

Is there a way to do this?

Please advise.

Thank you so much.

regards,
Edwina

[Segi]

You can always copy or move the files to a different location using

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FileServices.copyFile(fromPath, toPath)

to copy or

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FileServices.moveFile(fromPath, toPath)

to move the file(s).

When you say you that your site should read the files, do you mean that you want to create a hyperlink to the files or do you want to open the files and read the contents ? I don't think you can hyperlink to a location outside of your web server if that's what you're trying to do but you should be able to read the files using the Java File I/O libraries.

[edwinayin@qq.com]

Hello Segi,

Currently, I am using

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form.displayUrl();

to display my file content, so after the user clicks the hyperlink, the content (picture, text, pdf) will get displayed.

After moving the files outside the web server folder, I realized I can't do this anymore...

regards,
Edwina

[Steve James]

Hi, we created a files / document repository under Tomcat.

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<Context path="/documentrepository" docBase="D&#58;/EbaseDocRepository/DEV/" /&gt;

That way you can save the files outside of Ebase but still be able to refer to them within Tomcat eg http://server.domain.com/documentrepository/thefile.pdf

See https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-do ... ntext.html and search for docBase.

[edwinayin@qq.com]

Thanks, Steve,

I got this worked by using servlet.

http://forum.ebasetech.com/forum/viewto ... ingcontent

I will try your suggestion next.

regards,
Edwina

[edwinayin@qq.com]

Hello Steve,

We added the code as you suggested under tomcat\conf\Server.xml on our training server, and it worked perfectly, but is there a way to add it to our integration server?

I think the Server.xml is missing in the local integration server folder, where should we add the context code?

thanks,
Edwina

[Steve James]

Hi Edwina, I do not use the integrated server as it is not full blown Tomcat. I've no idea I'm afraid.

I develop forms in the Designer that points to a server installation of Tomcat.

Ugly but you could have a configuration file that points to the appropriate server based on environment.

Thanks
Steve

[Steve]

Hi Edwina,

Have you tried adding this to the ebasetest.xml inside:

<ebase-install-dir>/UfsClient/IntegratedServer

And then restart the UfsClient or Integrated Server

Steve