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Anand
Anand

Reputation: 10400

Rails 3.0.x send_file sending 404 HTML instead of the real file

I have setup a route to handle a specific file download. 

  match '/overview' => "pages#overview", :as => "da_overview"

in Pages#overview, I'm sending the file with this line

send_file File.join(Rails.root, 'public', 'downloads', 'overview.pdf'), :type =>"application/pdf"

I've switched on the x-sendfile setting.

  config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = "X-Sendfile"

Also, I've installed and enabled mod_xsendfile module in the apache server. I have enabled it for my site as well.

XSendFile on

Still, when I hit the url http://mysite.com/overview, the browser is downloading overview.pdf.html and the HTML file says 404: Requested URL /overview not found on this server

I've checked the file existence. The pdf file is /public/downloads directory. What configuration am i missing? Please help.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1385

Answers (1)

Chris Feist
Chris Feist

Reputation: 101

Depending on the version of mod_xsendfile that you're running you'll need to add one of the following after "XSendFile on" to give mod_xsendfile permissions to access files on your filesystem.

mod_xsendfile 0.9:

XSendFileAllowAbove on

mod_xsendfile >0.9:

XSendFilePath "/path/where/files/you're/sending/are"

Upvotes: 2

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