Serving static files uploaded by others...?

Hi,

I want to serve some static files uploaded by an auxiliary login that only has SFTP access. Let's say my main user is called UA, the secondary sftp-only UB, and they both belong to a group GX

In my /home/UA/webapps/static, I've symlinked a folder /home/UB/myfolder. The folder and the symlink belong to GX. When the user uploads files to my folder, they appear correctly under UA/webapps/static/myfolder, but when I try to see them as http://static.mydomain.com/myfolder , I get a 403.

Where am I going wrong ?

asked 10 Jan '14, 02:15

toyg
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Our Nginx server is configured to serve a 403 for any symlinks that point to a location outside of your main account home directory.

The workaround is to go the other direction with your symlink, eg:

Create /home/UA/webapps/static/myfolder as a normal directory
Give UB access to that directory.
Create /home/UB/myfolder as a symlink to /home/UA/webapps/static/myfolder

Hope that helps!

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answered 10 Jan '14, 19:31

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