Hmm. I'll look at the Props. Thanks!

Chas.

Timothy Perrett wrote:
> You wouldn't be hard coding it per say, the actual value would be
> either held in an external config file, or passed as a system property
> I.e -Drun.mode=staging
> 
> Check out Props in net.liftweb.util
> 
> Otherwise, I'm not sure if there is a way of getting the expanded war
> path or whatever... Not that I know loads about containers, but don't
> they all do it differently (the expanding and serving that is)?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> On Feb 23, 9:57 pm, "Charles F. Munat" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That would be better, but it's still hard-coding an absolute path. What
>> I'd really like to do is set the path relative to the web root so that
>> it just works no matter what machine I put it on. If I hard-code by run
>> mode, I still have to remember to change it if I change servers or move
>> the root folders around.
>>
>> Having said that, I, ah, hate to say this, but... run mode? It suddenly
>> occurs to me that I have never paid any attention to run mode, so I am
>> probably running all these production sites in debug mode. How does one
>> set the run mode?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Chas.
>>
>> Timothy Perrett wrote:
>>> Sorry, let me clarify that a bit more with an example... could you not
>>> dynamically set the upload path based on run mode?
>>> http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/blob/1bf23d21dff2a752b8b53ce96a83ba5d8d...
>>> Cheers, Tim
>>> On Feb 23, 1:26 pm, Timothy Perrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Chas,
>>>> Why dont you simply use property configuration based on the run mode?
>>>> Cheers, Tim
>>>> On Feb 23, 5:42 am, "Charles F. Munat" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> I am doing file uploads to several of my sites. Right now, I've hard
>>>>> coded the path to the directory to which the files are saved. This is a
>>>>> pain because it's not the same directory on the production server as it
>>>>> is on the dev server.
>>>>> How can I grab the current path so I can work with that? Or is there a
>>>>> better way? For example, if I had an /images/ directory in my web root,
>>>>> how would I save uploaded images to that directory?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Chas.
> > 

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