[support] FILE SYSTEM: PRIVATE vs PUBLIC

[Shai Gluskin]

Nestor,

A very quick read of this suggests that version 1 of the site had the file
system set to "private." That would certainly explain it. Write back if that
wasn't the case.

Shai

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Néstor <rotsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok I am confused about PRIVATE and PUBLIC set for the FILE SYSTEM
>
> I am taking a site and copying it to the same root area with a different
> name so I ended up
> with drupal 1 and drupal2.  I also created a different temp directories,
> just to be safe.
> Drupal1 is the original and the FILE SYSTEM is set up to PUBLIC and
> everything works.
>
> On drupal2, If the FILE SYSTEM is set to PUBLIC then my ddblock module will
> not display pictures
> and I get an error message  "The selected file 'D:\temp\filAB2.tmp could
> not be copied."
>
> But if I set drupal2 FILE SYSTEM to PRIVATE then everything works.
>
> Can some help understand why I can not set both the original and the copied
> site exactly the same?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nestor
>
>
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