private_download returns filepath list instead of file content

[sjanssen2]

Hi @antgonza,
when I generate a public link of an artifact in my Qiita instance:

I do get a link, but using this link does not return a zip archive with the files as content, but is a plain textfile that lists the filepaths from the filesystem, like:

- 346916 /protected/Demultiplexed/41/seqs.fastq.gz Demultiplexed/41/seqs.fastq.gz
- 69187 /protected/Demultiplexed/41/seqs.fasta.gz Demultiplexed/41/seqs.fasta.gz
- 425721 /protected/Demultiplexed/41/seqs.demux Demultiplexed/41/seqs.demux
- 22029 /protected/Demultiplexed/41/index.html Demultiplexed/41/index.html
- 6247 /protected/templates/6_prep_9_20240507-134645.txt mapping_files/41_mapping_file.txt

Since I read function names like _write_nginx_file_list in

qiita/qiita_pet/handlers/download.py

Line 137 in 13eafdf

def _write_nginx_file_list(self, to_download):

I figure this is probably due to a misconfiguration of my NGINX. Could you provide an example nginx config section?
Many thanks!

[sjanssen2]

Or is it a nginx module that is missing? If so, which one do you use?

[antgonza]

Yup, nginx: https://github.com/evanmiller/mod_zip. Note that the library is not perfect and could be improved, suggest checking these:

• https://qiita.ucsd.edu/static/doc/html/faq.html#how-to-solve-download-or-unzip-errors
• Download Drops #3002
• improve zip/archiving of download files #2920

[sjanssen2]

wasn't easy to compile / install a modified nginx version, therefore I left some notes to the INSTALL.md file in #3409 It works now on our instance :-)