Content Publisher Portlet 2.0 in VAP

Sergey_Matveev

Hello!

There are a page with Content Publisher Portlet 2.0 in my site (Site is in VAP). Using this portlet, user places a static file in a page.  File is saved in the folder VCMInstallDir/ inst-vgninst/ file_source/my_folder. There a link to this file in a page, the link looks like "http://myhost:7003/file_source/my_folder/name_of_file".

If user is authenticated in WEM, user can download a file without problems. But if user is not authenticated in WEM, he gets an error "Forbidden".

Does anybody know, how can I make "http://myhost:7003/file_source/my_folder/" available for all users?

Thanks for your help!

Evan_Bench

I'm guessing you have a community of business users that don't login to WEM/Preview and you want them to be able to at least see preview and work with the content? (or in this case simply download the photos/videos/etc) is that correct?

The best solution is to simply create basic logins for those editors (with basic capabilities - the "Knowledge Manager" role is a good one to choose for these users. is there a reason why you don't want to create authentication accounts for these users?

But maybe you're talking about "real" end users? Normally when a Dynamic Portal page is published the content is deployed to the static docroot of a webserver and is available for end-users to right-click and download (unless there is some js involved that denies this). 

So, if you're talking about actual end-users of your site, then it should allow download! (if not there's something in the security of your static docroot on the delivery stage that forbids this). A common solution as well is to develop a simple display view for your Image component that presents a "download button".

Let me know who exactly these users are as the answer depends on if you're talking about Management Stage or Delivery Stage.