Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

2003-07-17 Thread Andrew Brampton
Place a .htaccess in the files directory denying all access to it, and also possibly redirecting them to a login page. However since your users should never know about the files/ directory there is no real point :) Then code a PHP script to serve the files just in the same way you would if they

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

2003-07-17 Thread Petre Agenbag
If you place files inside a webfolder, then they are publicly accessible, period. They might not be obvious, ie. you would have to guess that there are files in a specific folder AND know the exact name of the file, but if you do happen to guess correct, then the files are downloadable. There

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

2003-07-17 Thread John Nichel
Petre Agenbag wrote: If you place files inside a webfolder, then they are publicly accessible, period. Not true. .htaccess turns a public directory into a private directory. Even if you know the path and filename you want, without an accepted username/password, you're not getting the file.

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

2003-07-17 Thread Juan Nin
I need to do the same and a .htacces file would not suite the problem I need to do as yahoogroups does When you upload a file to the Files section, it send by default an e-mail to the group members with a link to the file When you click on the link, you're sent to a login page, and after login in

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

2003-07-17 Thread Curt Zirzow
Maria Garcia Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! I'm developing an application to which you can upload files. Right now the destination folder of those files is at /public_html/files which makes them visible from the internet. I thought of putting that ./files/ folder outside the

Re: [PHP] Protecting files with PHP

2003-07-17 Thread Justin French
Read this -- it got me well and truely pointed in the right direction http://zend.com/zend/trick/tricks-august-2001.php Justin On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 01:36 AM, Juan Nin wrote: I need to do the same and a .htacces file would not suite the problem I need to do as yahoogroups does When you

RE: [PHP] Protecting files in PHP

2002-10-01 Thread John W. Holmes
I have some files off of the web root which I'd like to be able to serve up to users (*.doc, *.xls). I know I can do this with header(), but how do I reference a file that's outside of the webroot? Thanks! You can use an absolute or relative path, just like any other reference. Send the