Re: Link to download files on another part of system

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" <parasane@gmail.com> 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 <sleepwalker@rahulsjohari.com> 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: sleepwalker@rahulsjohari.com >> >> ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely² >> > >