[hunchentoot-devel] Problems with create-folder-dispatcher-and-handler

[Edi Weitz]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:24:39 +0100, "Rafał Strzaliński" <nablaone at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've tried to serve files from 'public' directory under '/' base URL:
>
> (hunchentoot::create-folder-dispatcher-and-handler
>          "/"
>          #p"public/")

Why the double colon?

> and always got 403 HTTP error.
>
> When I've changed base url to for example '/public/' everything
> works fine.
>
> I've tried to fix it, but i'm don't understand pathnames well :-(
>
> Any ideas?

I just tried with LispWorks and it works fine for me.  What happens if
you use an absolute pathname instead of #p"public/"?

Note that the documentation says that a file relative to BASE-PATH is
emitted, specifically, if you look at the source code, MERGE-PATHNAMES
is used.  MERGE-PATHNAMES is called in the handler's thread and I
think it's implementation-specific what happens if you use a relative
pathname here.  So, don't do it...

> IMHO
> (with-chroot (directory) ...) would be an ideal solution :-)

Huh?

Cheers,
Edi.