Re: files outside of the web tree
| From: | Joshua Kehn | Date: | Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:11:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: files outside of the web tree | ||
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On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Jim Giner wrote:
I have managed to build include files and store them above my public folder
> and the called pages manage to find them from the public folder and properly
> include them. My problem is with the html src= attribute. I have uploaded
> photos to be included in my web pages and I didn't want them in the web
> tree so I moved them above it also. I use php to get the root folder's name
> and then I add "../photos/" to the filename's path, but now my tags can't
> find them. Can I not do this?
>
Nope, static elements need to be stored in a web accessible directory. If you could access things by
saying
../ then that would defeat the purpose of storing things where they aren't
accessible.
Regards,
-Josh___________________________________________
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