Only do this if all the files should be publicly accessible. Otherwise, you'll need to create a php wrapper to do authorization before sending the file.
-Roberto Rahul Sitaram Johari wrote: > Ave, > > I¹m going to try creating the sharepoint within my webserver, as suggested > by you and tijnema. I think that¹s probably the easiest and quickest > solution to this. I¹ll report back! > > Thanks! > > > On 3/29/07 4:48 PM, "Daniel Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rahul, >> >> Your best bet in this case, with the most minimal coding, would be to >> either symlink the individual files into a web-accessible directory, or >> symlink the directory containing those files into a web-accessible location. >> However, this part would be up to you, determinable by your current system >> configuration and potential security risks ( e.g. - the directory is also the >> parent directory for information needing to remain secure, so we don't want >> to >> symlink the directory). >> >> Another option would be to read the file through a script and output it >> sending a MIME type prior to the data output, placing the name of the file on >> the server into the output bugger head so that the user would see it simply >> as >> a direct download. >> >> On 3/29/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Ave, >>> >>> This is actually a continuation of my previous ³Show files using Wildcards² >>> thread, but a different problem. >>> >>> Code: >>> >>> <?php >>> exec("find /Users/rjohari/Documents/XFER/espi -type f -name >>> ".$row['PHONE']."*.vox", $files); >>> foreach ($files as $value) { >>> echo "<font face=arial size=1><a >>> href='/Users/rjohari/Documents/XFER/osm/ESPI/".basename($value)."'>".basenam >>> e($value)."</a></font><BR>"; >>> } >>> ?> >>> >>> The files I¹m linking to, in order to let the User download them, reside on >>> a mounted share on my system. They are on in the Apache Web Server htdocs >>> folder where my website resides. How do I make these files available to >>> download if they are not in my webserver folder? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Rahul Sitaram Johari >>> CEO, Twenty Four Seventy Nine Inc. >>> >>> W: http://www.rahulsjohari.com >>> E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely² >>> >> > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php