RE: [PHP] Re: uploading file outside WEB Root
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:12:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Re: uploading file outside WEB Root | ||
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On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:38 -0500, Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luke [mailto:tinmachin3@googlemail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 7:16 AM
> > To: info@simply-networks.de
> > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: uploading file outside WEB Root
> >
> > Could you use a symbolic link? If on Linux 'ln -s /fpath/foldername'?
> >
> > Not sure how to do this on Windows
> >
> > 2008/9/1 Carlos Medina <info@simply-networks.de>
> >
> > > Angelo Zanetti schrieb:
> > >
> > >> Hi All,
> > >> For security purposes I would like to upload a file outside the
> > webroot.
> > >>
> > >> I have got this to work on my local dev machine but it doesn't seem
> > to
> > >> work
> > >> on the live server.
>
> ---8<--- snip
>
> AFAIK, there is no good way to accomplish this on a Windows system. You
> can map a network location to a drive, and you can even map a folder to
> a drive... but I've never seen any way to map something to a folder (or
> file). If there is a solution, it's probably a complex registry hack
> that MIGHT work with your version of Windows.
<tirade>
Microsoft sucks because it doesn't have symbolic links.
</tirade>
;)
Cheers,
Rob.
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