Question
What is the set up required to allow particular files to be downloaded from server?
- Posted on November 3, 2015
- DigitalOceanMiscellaneous
Asked by kavisha
Hello,
I have a droplet up and running in Digital Ocean. I am using tomcat7, postgres, nginx and Java.
I created a safari extension for my website and now want to move it to the server, so that i can give a link to the location and people can download and install the extension.
This link - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10956587/how-to-create-a-downloadable-public-link-for-files-on-server, provided some answers. I moved the extension to location /var/www/ as mentioned in the link.But,I have not installed Apache2.(I wanted to know if we can do it by the stuff that i already have on the server). If i try to access the files using - http://sitename/extensionname.safariextz, i get a 404 error.
My questions are
- I have tomcat7 already, Can i give some permissions for tomcat to let it allow certain files to be downloaded?. Or do i need something Apache2.?
- Where should the downloadable file be placed in the server?
Appreciate any help, Thanks, Kavisha
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Hi,
For Tomcat, you’ll need to create link to the static content by modifying Tomcat’s server.xml configuration file to add this to the <Host> section:
Replacing /home/stuff with the path to your static files, and path=“/static” with the path you want to use on your site for the files.