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    <p>ellou' Players </p> <p>I need to crate custom <code>CDN</code>-like solution for small app purposes and wonder what is the best way to serving files directly with Play, but not placed under the <code>public</code> directory of the application? I need to gain access to FTP-upload folder.</p> <p>Let's say that my app is run from <code>/home/myaccount/playapps/app201</code> folder and is available at <code>http://somedomain.tld</code> address. I have also a common FTP account with folder pointing to <code>/home/myaccount/ftp_upload</code>.</p> <p>What is the best way to serve file <code>/home/myaccount/ftp_upload/folder_1/sub_2/file.txt</code> as <code>http://somedomain.tld/ftp_upload/folder_1/sub_2/file.txt</code> (without any checks and restrictions)?</p> <ul> <li>One option is to use HTTP server and set separate <code>host</code> or <code>alias</code> for <code>ftp folder</code> , but I would like to avoid using additional servers on some nodes (<strong>ref:</strong> <em>if you're looking for server solution check the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10882313/play-framework-2-0-how-to-display-multiple-image/10884297#10884297">sample config</a></em>).</li> <li>Second is writing <code>Application.serve(String filepath)</code> action + route, but I don't need any additional actions before serving files. Is that make sense to use this approach?</li> </ul> <p>Is there other option available?</p> <p>(this question is also available at <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/play-framework/OWFKlDE12mY" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Groups</a>)</p>
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    1. COMay I ask for some details? Part of the usefulness of a CDN -- at least in my opinion -- is that your requests don't contain cookies, because it's filling up unnecessary bandwidth. Is that part of the solution you wish for, e.g. serving dynamic requests from `www.example.com` and static requests (CDN) from `cdn.example.com` (or a whole different TLD)? Also, are most of your requests static (CDN) or dynamic? Maybe you have a rough percentage. It could also help to know if your main static dataset is small, say 90% of static requests are for at most a few GB of data.
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    2. CO@Carsten, thx for response. I want to place large media files and other `fully public` stuff apart of app's structure, because I don't need access control for it. The App in this case holds paths and metadata - and of corse renders front-end. My goal can be easily demonstrated with use a front-end http server and alias for some folder [described here]( http://stackoverflow.com/a/10884297/1066240) , but I want to avoid use of the HTTP server. On the other hand I think that I just also can deploy app at port 80 and some lightweight server to catch the static requests.(will be more...)
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    3. CO@Caresten: (...more :)) I just realised (thanks to you) that serving these data from other domain will prevent cookie sending, which can be also good point for performance boost.
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