Redmine

You want to link to files in the file system where Redmine resides, don't you?

Negative, the folder is located on a separate server. Is this possible?

I think this is not possible.

Yeah that's what I was thinking but wanted to ask around anyway.
Appreciate the help :)

William Lafleur wrote:

Yeah that's what I was thinking but wanted to ask around anyway.
Appreciate the help :)

There are too many 'appliances' in between: the file ---> Mongrel Redmine --> Apache --> the browser -> the human.

Ivan Cenov wrote:

I think this is not possible.

Yep, for security reasons, I think this has been discussed in an old issue.

We can do it on our site, but it is a bit convoluted as you have to enter a file alias and a full UNC path to the file or folder you are targeting:

"X:\Projects\Random\Downloads\setup.exe":file://///SERVER02/vol1/Projects/Random/Downloads/setup.exe

And you have to mess about if you have spaces in the path name (replace with %20):

"X:\Projects\Random\Downloads\Windows Updates":file://///SERVER02/vol1/Projects/Random/Downloads/Windows%20Updates

This also only works in IE. Fox and Chome won't support it!

Jason Palmer wrote:

We can do it on our site, but it is a bit convoluted as you have to enter a file alias and a full UNC path to the file or folder you are targeting:

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And you have to mess about if you have spaces in the path name (replace with %20):

[...]

Don't you love the way web browsers work. Interoperability doesn't seem to be a word they understand.

I was just playing around in Redmine and got all of the following external file links to work on my Windows OS:

"UNC file name label":file://ServerName/Directory/Name/With%20Escaped%20Spaces
"UNC file name label":file://ServerName\Directory\Name\With%20Escaped%20Spaces
"UNC file name label":file:////\\ServerName/Directory/Name/With%20Escaped%20Spaces
"UNC file name label":file:////\\ServerName\Directory\Name\With%20Escaped%20Spaces
"UNC file name label":file://///ServerName/Directory/Name/With%20Escaped%20Spaces
"UNC file name label":file://///ServerName\Directory\Name\With%20Escaped%20Spaces
"UNC file name label":file://///\\ServerName/Directory/Name/With%20Escaped%20Spaces
"UNC file name label":file://///\\ServerName\Directory\Name\With%20Escaped%20Spaces

• Redmine "Wiki-UNC-Link" Plugin
• Google Chrome "LocalLinks" extension

In order to link to another file on the filesystem, that file has to be either:
1) At an address that a webserver (not necessarily Passenger) can route to, i.e. in Apache's public_html directory for a virtual host.
- or -
2) Be accessible (permissions) to a script that is running in a webserver on the machine / LAN.

I'm not a ruby coder so I'll not be writing the Redmine plugin for this, but there is no reason that a plugin could not access the file for you and route it. In PHP the function is readfile(), and the appropriate HTTP headers should be supplied. Note that it won't be able to read arbitrary files from the filesystem, but you could designate a folder in /home/ or /home/someuser/ with the proper permissions.

Note that such a script is not of itself a security issue, however it could expose other security issues (i.e. permissions) to exploitation. Do not let it accept a full path, rather hard-code the path or an array of acceptable paths. Don't forget to filter input, blah blah blah, no arbitrary bash commands, blah blah.

It's possible enable the links to share units in Redmine?

Like -> file:\\aaaa\aa.pdf

Thanks

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