Jason Pruim

On Apr 27, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Joshua Kehn <josh.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Jim Giner wrote:
> I have managed to build include files and store them above my public folder 
>> and the called pages manage to find them from the public folder and properly 
>> include them. My problem is with the html src= attribute. I have uploaded 
>> photos to be included in my web pages and I didn't want them in the web 
>> tree so I moved them above it also. I use php to get the root folder's name 
>> and then I add "../photos/" to the filename's path, but now my tags can't 
>> find them. Can I not do this? 
>> 
> Nope, static elements need to be stored in a web accessible directory. If you 
> could access things by saying `../` then that would defeat the purpose of 
> storing things where they aren't accessible.
> 

Actually it is possible but not the way he was doing it...  Look at dispatch 
model scripts I believe. 

Those (if my memory is correct) will allow you to serve files the way you are 
wanting to. 



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