Re: files outside of the web tree

Jason Pruim On Apr 27, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Joshua Kehn <josh.kehn@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > Actually it is possible but not the way he was doing it... Look at dispatch model scripts I believe. Those (if my memory is correct) will allow you to serve files the way you are wanting to.