Linking to files that often cahnge content - direct link vs database

Linking to files that often cahnge content - direct link vs database

by Mitja Decman -
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Hi,

I have an excel file that I update every week, since it is containing homework results for students.

I would like to create a link to this file, located in a specific folder on the moodle server (Ubuntu, Moodle 3.1).

I would then simply open this file in excel, update the content and save it (or open a local file on my PC and copy/paste/overwrite it to a specific moodle folder). Students would use the same link all the time to get the latest results.

I don't want to edit moodle every time to upload an updated file.

How do I do that?

Thanks Mitja

PS: On the previous moodle (windows, Moodle 2.9) we used File System repository, named Repo (located in C:\moodleserver\moodledata\Repo) and my links worked. I used www.ourmoodle.com/repo/results.xlsx.


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Re: Linking to files that often cahnge content - direct link vs database

by Howard Miller -
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If the file system repository worked before it should work now... I don't think it's changed.

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Odg: Re: Linking to files that often cahnge content - direct link vs database

by Mitja Decman -

Sorry, but it does not work. I have tried a few more things but "File not found" is an error.

I created a folder in var/moodledata/repositories/Repo, added a file aaa.txt in there but the link

In settings (Dashboard/Site administration/Plugins/Repositories/Edit repository instance) there is a repository named RepoR for Repo folder (dropdown selected)

https://www.xxx.com/Repo/aaa.txt - 404 File not found.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

Mitja

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Re: Odg: Re: Linking to files that often cahnge content - direct link vs database

by Howard Miller -
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That's nothing to do with Moodle. You haven't set up Apache (or whatever web server software you are using) to serve files at that URL. 

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Odg: Re: Odg: Re: Linking to files that often cahnge content - direct link vs database

by Mitja Decman -

You are so right, sorry about that. I forgot that we created a virtual web directory on IIS on Windwos server.

We created an alias on Apache and it works.

Thank you.

Mitja

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