Static Plug: serve static files from outside of the app directory

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Hi,

Briefly, this works:

 plug Plug.Static,
  at: "/uploads", from: Path.expand("./"), gzip: false

But when I move the files up to the parent directory, this doesn’t:

plug Plug.Static,
  at: "/uploads", from: Path.expand("../"), gzip: false

Could static files be located outside of the app directory and still be served?

Thanks,
Germain

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You can’t expect non-sourve files outside of the ./priv directory to be there in production deploys. This can be changed via configuration but anything outside of your project directory is even less reliable.

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100% true! Therefore when files are saved, the path of your uploads must start like this:

root = Path.join(:code.priv_dir(:my_app), "static")

in order to match the path of the priv directory of my_app at run-time.

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