Re: readfile()

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 13:02, Aaron Todd wrote: > I'm trying to use readfile() to allow a user to download a file that is > outside of my webroot. > > webroot = /var/www/html > downloads dir = /var/www/downloads > > Here is the code that I have been using: > $file = "/var/www/downloads/test.txt"; > header("Content-Description: File Transfer"); > header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".basename($file)); > readfile($file); > > This code will work if I change the path to the webroot path, but not the > downloads dir path. I get an error saying "Unable to access" and then > "failed to open stream: No such file or directory". > > I have given whe I believe is the correct rights for the downloads dir and > also the file...rwxr-xr-x for both. > > Anyone have any idea why this isnt working? Is the download directory outside a chroot'd web setup perhaps? Or maybe your provider has some security you don't know about? There are some file related functions you can debug with, like is_readable(), and file_exists(). -- Greg Donald