Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Question for the Pros

[Jason Wies]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:32:47PM +0000, Joel Webb wrote:
> Tony,
> 
> Thanks, My real problem isn't with uploading attachments - it's downloading 
> them. I
> am getting an error message from Internet Explorer but not from Mozilla.

I think Tony might have been on to something saying that specifying 
"application/octet-stream" will cause the browser to download the file.  You 
might try this patch (CVS) and see what happens:

--- email/get_attach.php.old  Wed Nov 28 21:53:23 2001
+++ email/get_attach.php      Wed Nov 28 21:53:32 2001
@@ -29 +29 @@
-       
$GLOBALS['phpgw']->browser->content_header($GLOBALS['phpgw']->msg->args['name'],$mime);
+       
$GLOBALS['phpgw']->browser->content_header($GLOBALS['phpgw']->msg->args['name']);

> Tony (Angles) Puglisi (address@hidden) wrote*:
> >
> >Joel Webb (address@hidden) wrote*:
> >>
> >>I am pretty sure the code is right. I guess my real question is:
> >>
> >>1. What is the purpose of /files in the phpGW config and where should this 
> >>be
> >>located at?
> >>
> >>2. Does this have to be located on the root directory like the config 
> >>suggests?

If you're using 0.9.12, see the report here (should also be in the FAQ for 
0.9.12-1 already):
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=429425&group_id=7305&atid=107305

I think in 0.9.12, and definitely in CVS, the path in setup is NOT relative to 
your phpGroupWare installation directory.  /files means /files.  The reason for 
this is that files in the web root are publicly accessible, which is not 
desirable in most situations.

> >>3. What permissions does the directory need?

It needs to be writable by the web server, so as root run

mkdir /path/to/files/home
chown -R nobody:nogroup /path/to/files
chmod -R 660 /path/to/files

where nobody and nogroup are the user and group the webserver run as.  When we 
package up 0.9.14, we should include a files directory with a home directory 
already in it, so the admin can easily copy it somewhere else.

> >1) I still think you should look at: /email/doc/FAQ.txt
> >It deals some with this, because when you attach a file to an email, that 
> >file gets
> >uploaded to the location you are asking about.
> >
> >I think this "files" location was first used by the old filemanager, and 
> >then as a
> >place to upload attachments for outgoing emails.

It should be used both as storage for outgoing attachments and as a place to 
store received attachments to be viewed on the server.  It should not be used 
as temporary storage for uploaded attachments that will never be needed again; 
we should use the system temporary directory for that, or have it as a separate 
admin option.

> >Now, I understand we are going to have a "virtual filesystem" that resides 
> >in the
> >database (is this correct?) whence it will be easier for people to save 
> >attachments
> >to this "virtual" location, and probably deal with security issues too (???)

The VFS is there and well documented (and designed I hope), complete with 
database support.  Developer docs are in phpgwapi/doc/vfs.  I'm sure glad I 
documented it when it was fresh in my mind.

Jason Wies aka Zone