I guess the issue comes from Path.expand/1
. As stated in its doc, it
converts the path to an absolute one and expands any . and … characters and a leading ~
Given that fact, you could take advantage from some environment variable depending on wether the app is running in production, development…
plug Plug.Static,
at: "/downs",
from: System.get_env("MY_APP_DOWNS_PATH"),
gzip: false
Note that with this MY_APP_DOWNS_PATH
should match to a path on the machine where the releases will be run.
This won’t probabbly be what you want. So config/releases
would serve you better.
Edit: MY_APP_DOWNS_PATH
in my example is of course an absolute path and can even be outside the app folder.
I see you’ve already found a solution that works for you. ^^
I was assuming that your downs
folder is not a classic “assets” folder files and shouldn’t be renewed from release to release.