# Content "outside" of radiant

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-outside-of-radiant/79108>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [December 12, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-outside-of-radiant/79108 "2006-12-12T06:27:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BJ\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@BJ\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BJ_Clark)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-outside-of-radiant/79108/1 "2006-12-12T06:27:21Z")

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Hello All,  
I’ve got radiant installed, running, etc.

I would like to serve up my own folders of stuff outside of radiant’s  
control.  
I’ve tossed a folder of stuff in /public/ but I get a 404 when I just  
try to pull it up.  
What is the proper way to do this?  
Thanks,  
BJ Clark

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**Author:** ![BJ\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@BJ\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BJ_Clark)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-outside-of-radiant/79108/2 "2006-12-12T13:27:56Z")

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Because of the way most dispatcher setups work, you’ll have to provide a  
fully-qualified url, not just a directory. Alternatively, you can tinker  
with some of the rewrite rules (if you’re using Apache). I’m not  
qualified to help you with mod\_rewrite, however… it’s mostly a mystery  
to me.

Sean C.  
[seancribbs.com](http://seancribbs.com)

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**Author:** ![BJ\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@BJ\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BJ_Clark)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-outside-of-radiant/79108/3 "2006-12-12T17:52:52Z")

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The hint is already inside of your /public/.htaccess file …

# If you don’t want Rails to look in certain directories,

# use the following rewrite rules so that Apache won’t rewrite

certain requests #

# Example:

# RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_URI} ^/notrails.\*

# RewriteRule .\* - [L]

Uncommented it would not dispatch anything under /notrails. Very  
handy if you like to run Ruby and PHP on the same server for other  
tasks.

- Jon

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**Author:** ![BJ\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@BJ\_Clark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BJ_Clark)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/content-outside-of-radiant/79108/4 "2006-12-13T02:33:24Z")

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On 12/12/2006, at 2:25 PM, BJ Clark wrote:

> Hello All,  
> I’ve got radiant installed, running, etc.
> 
> I would like to serve up my own folders of stuff outside of  
> radiant’s control.  
> I’ve tossed a folder of stuff in /public/ but I get a 404 when I just  
> try to pull it up.  
> What is the proper way to do this?

BJ, It depends on what platform you are running on. Could you give us  
a bit more info? eg. what webserver, using fast-cgi or not…

Bodhi