On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:24:39 +0100, "Rafał Strzaliński" <nablaone@gmail.com> wrote:

I've tried to serve files from 'public' directory under '/' base URL:

(hunchentoot::create-folder-dispatcher-and-handler "/" #p"public/")

Why the double colon?

and always got 403 HTTP error.

When I've changed base url to for example '/public/' everything works fine.

I've tried to fix it, but i'm don't understand pathnames well :-(

Any ideas?

I just tried with LispWorks and it works fine for me. What happens if you use an absolute pathname instead of #p"public/"? Note that the documentation says that a file relative to BASE-PATH is emitted, specifically, if you look at the source code, MERGE-PATHNAMES is used. MERGE-PATHNAMES is called in the handler's thread and I think it's implementation-specific what happens if you use a relative pathname here. So, don't do it...

IMHO (with-chroot (directory) ...) would be an ideal solution :-)

Huh? Cheers, Edi.