Re: files outside of the web tree

From: 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___________________________________________ Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com

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