On 8/7/11 10:05 PM, Jeffrey Massung wrote:
So, the only way you can begin to solve this issue is if you have direct access to the web server and know how it's routing and serving static content.
I'll answer you and Mark Weider at the same time. I'm trying to add auto-upload to AirLaunch. It mostly works. I can only upload via ftp (http isn't usually accepted, I don't think, even if you provide a name and password. At least, it doesn't work on my hosted account.) There is already a place in the stack for the user to enter the http URL where their installation files will be downloaded from. That URL is required for setting up the wi-fi installation, so AirLaunch already has that.
I could ask the user for a separate FTP upload URL but I'd rather not if I don't have to. What would be better is to take their HTTP URL and convert it to a valid FTP URL which will only be used internally by AirLaunch to get their files onto their server.
On both my main hosted server and at my site on on-rev, changing the htpp URL works if I add "www" after the domain part of the path. That allows an ftp upload to resolve the www alias, and the rest of the path is the same as the http URL. Easy, and no hassle for the user.
But when testing with a subdomain, that method creates a new "www" folder inside the subdomain, which isn't what's wanted. So I'd like a generic way to create a valid FTP path from a known HTTP path, one that works with primary domains as well as subdomains.
It sounds like I may have to ask the user to provide both paths. But that makes everything more complex because the two paths are slightly different, the user needs to know the distinction between web-relative paths and absolute paths and what their web root folder is called, and I'd rather avoid the support issues around that if I can.
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