RE: [PHP] Re: uploading file outside WEB Root [0T]

> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Cummings [mailto:robert@interjinn.com] > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 1:12 PM > To: Boyd, Todd M. > Cc: Luke; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: uploading file outside WEB Root > > 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> > > ;) Microsoft sucks because they didn't make their symbolic linking methodology public knowledge and charge additional fees to obtain the Win2k system kit they suggest you use to make the links in the first place. FTFY. :D Todd Boyd Web Programmer