I have installed Drupal at sourceforge.
Because the web-directory is read only I have to use the directory /tmp/persistent/mosaicdotnet instead. But Drupal can't hzandly this an every link to a file in this directory has added a additional slash at the beginning.
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dave reidStraight from admin/settings/file-system:
"File system path:
A file system path where the files will be stored. This directory has to exist and be writable by Drupal. If the download method is set to public this directory has to be relative to the Drupal installation directory, and be accessible over the web."
Your temporary directory can be an absolute location, but your normal file system path that is used for downloading needs to be a relative directory (usually sites/default/files). Otherwise, Drupal will pretty much not be able to work.