Re: Query tool - file browser

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Johann Spies <jspies(at)sun(dot)ac(dot)za> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:56:39AM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
>
> > If you're running in Server mode (SERVER_MODE=True), then file storage is
> > (by default) on the server, in a per-user directory. This is so that you
> > have access to your files no matter where you login to pgAdmin from and
> to
> > prevent users from browsing the filesystem on your server.
> >
> > If you're running in Desktop mode (SERVER_MODE=False), then you should
> have
> > access to the entire local filesystem.
>
> Thanks David.
>
> I have tried to run it in Desktop mode, but setting SERVER_MODE=False
> does not make a difference:
>
> (pgadmin4.1.6) 14:47:02 js(at)sitasie:~/pgadmin4.1.6/lib/
> python3.6/site-packages/pgadmin4$ python3.6 pgAdmin4.py
> Starting pgAdmin 4. Please navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5050 in your
> browser.

Changing SERVER_MODE won't change what you see on the command line, but it
certainly should change the root of the file browser, unless you've
overridden the default config to prevent it.

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