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Laravel + Filament + Private Disk on Cloudways
Introduction
After a long, frustrating debugging exercise, I have discovered a quick tip for my Cloudways + Laravel friends. The “why” is still a touch fuzzy for me at the moment, but I’ll at least explain the symptoms and the fix.
The goal: Add a private file upload to a Filament resource form, ensuring anonymous users cannot download/view the file.
The issue: Everything was working great in my ddev environment. I could preview and open the files if I was logged in, and I would see a 403 if I was logged out. When I moved this to a Cloudways server I was getting automatically logged-out every time I hit a private file URL. Weird, right?
Code
Here’s the final code (the Cloudways “fix” is further down this page):
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404 Error Serving a /libraries page in Drupal 8
It took some time to figure out why I kept seeing a 404 error (page not found) on http://www.mysite.com/libraries. The issue seemed to only present itself on our Acquia environments. Ultimately I realized that there was a conflict due to having a “libraries” directory in the document root of the site (e.g., /docroot/libraries).
It was a quick fix after realizing the cause of the problem; I added this to my .htaccess file, above the other index.php rewrite rules.
12RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/libraries/?$RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]The reason this wasn’t happening on my local machine is because I’m using nginx locally for this particular website; the .htaccess file isn’t used.
