Right. That is not what I would call a proper setup. A proper setup would have
DocumentRoot set to /path/to/app/webroot. And your flash directory (and
robots.txt and favicon.ico and anything else the web server is supposed to
serve directly, without interference by CakePHP) would go inside the webroot
directory. That is the purpose of the webroot directory. Pointing the
DocumentRoot to the webroot directory ensures visitors cannot receive files
outside of the webroot directory which they're not supposed to see. (Normally
your config files or other PHP source files would not do anything when called
from a web browser directly, but they might produce error messages that would
reveal information about your server, and if PHP somehow becomes disabled on
your server due to a bad upgrade, you don't want visitors to be able to read
your PHP sources.)
On May 20, 2011, at 19:44, David Kullmann wrote:
> I believe it depends on your .htaccess file as well.
>
> I have this:
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
>
> To check for a file or directory.
>
> My DocumentRoot is the directory which contains APP:
>
> ls -1d app/ flash/
> app/
> flash/
>
> I have documents in the flash directory that are served if you visit
> domain.com/flash/filename.swf
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