# Pydio 8 - Public Links **URL:** \ **Category:** Pydio 8\ **Created:** [March 13, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836 "2018-03-13T06:07:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![martinamw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@martinamw](https://forum.pydio.com/u/martinamw)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836/1 "2018-03-13T06:07:51Z")
Does anyone actually have this working. There is so much old information out there, seems pydio change this stuff every release, can’t even find any current documentation for current clean install of version 8, on pydio’s own website ! couldn’t even sign up for this board to post a question, except linked through my old/hacked GitHub account. Is version 8 really just like a development preview, it should be very simple to have a public link to a file, i mean this is really basic stuff. Does anyone know which version to downgrade to, that public links work for and has documentation available for ? ---
**Author:** ![zayn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a87d85/32.png) [@zayn](https://forum.pydio.com/u/zayn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836/2 "2018-03-13T08:15:25Z")
Hi, if you have a fresh Pydio 8 install public links should work immediately, did you enable everything ( such as output\_buffering, rewrite rules etc…) As for the doc there’s the Pydio 7 doc and the Pydio 8 so sometimes it can be confusing(it’s more or less the same) it all depends on if you have set everything up well. ---
**Author:** ![martinamw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@martinamw](https://forum.pydio.com/u/martinamw)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836/3 "2018-03-13T23:52:07Z")
Hi, I have output\_buffering set to 0, and rewrite rules all enabled. All other features work. It seems to be rewrite related, I just get a 404 file not found when trying to open a shared link. ---
**Author:** ![romoloman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@romoloman](https://forum.pydio.com/u/romoloman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836/4 "2018-03-14T01:43:55Z")
Are you sure that in the web server config the parameter AllowOverride all is set for the pydio directory ? To be honest it should be sufficient: AllowOverride FileInfo Failing to have set that parameter makes completely useless to have enabled mod\_rewrite. (assuming that you are running on apache web server) ---
**Author:** ![martinamw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@martinamw](https://forum.pydio.com/u/martinamw)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836/5 "2018-03-14T03:10:02Z")
Yes it’s definitely got mod\_rewrite and AllowOverride set. I even removed it to be sure, which disables lots of features. the public link is in this format - do you know if correct: [http://SERVER/pydio/public/a84fbe](http://SERVER/pydio/public/a84fbe) ---
**Author:** ![martinamw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@martinamw](https://forum.pydio.com/u/martinamw)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836/6 "2018-03-14T05:07:17Z")
HI, I ended up wiping the install of Pydio (it was installed from ubuntu packages), and reinstalled manually instead from zip, and now everything is good. I’m not sure what the issue was, I checked all permissions and it couldn’t have been php or apache, but either way i’m all set now. Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![romoloman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@romoloman](https://forum.pydio.com/u/romoloman)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836/7 "2018-03-14T08:36:13Z")
Happy to know that you have solved. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/pydio/original/2X/6/61f19fa52ec15fd4250db51aea351adba0e831fd.png) [@system](https://forum.pydio.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/pydio-8-public-links/836/8 "2023-05-16T10:31:10Z")
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