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Originally Posted by AndrewD

Hello again. Can I ask for some more information on how you are trying to make this work?

I tested the following:

- I set up a trial server on port 81, and constructed an entry in LDM on another server pointing to http://trial_server:81/myfile.pdf. This is accessed and downloaded correctly via LDM.

- However, I don't understand why you are running two servers on the same machine. When LDM accesses files via a full url, the access is *much* less efficient than a direct filestore link, even if it is on the same machine. There is an overhead in http access which does not exist when you do a direct file read

- If you want LDM to get at files that are on the same computer but in a different part of the filestore, the easiest way to deal with this is via the LDM *local_file_root* and *local_file_root_prefix* parameters, e.g.
- set local_file_root = yes
- set local_file_root_prefix to /home/bob/dowloads
- set upload_dir to /uploads

I'm missing something important, I'm sure.

Hi Andrew, the reason I have to run them on seperate ports is down to user load, whena file goes up there are generally 100s of downloads started straight away and these continue for some hours before dieing down to a few per hour.

The problem I have is not bandwidth, but instead memory, to prevent the machine from disk caching I used lighttpd for downloads [it doesn't spawn extra servers] but has less functionality, and apache for web pages.


Thus what I would like is for client to upload to say http://www.example.net/downloads [/home/bob/downloads] but there download to be served from http://www.example.net:81/downloads [/home/bob/downloads]

What I am looking for LDM to do is automatically add the :81 into the download url so they are served from the correct process, instead of having to edit them by hand after using the built in file uploader you have supplied.


So we are using the same physical machine, same file system, simply a seperate process ona different port to serve the files. Keeping downloads and webpages seperate as much as I can

I hope this clears up what I am trying to do

I am sorry for not responding sooner, work has had me tied up recently.

Thanks

-Alex