Re: open/download file not under www-root

As long as the user that Apache is running under has NTFS read permissions to the target folder, then you should have no problems. A quick and dirty force method that I use would be something like this: $file = "x:\\path\\to\\the\\file.pdf"; header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/force-download'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($file)); readfile($file); Note the double backslashes! Cheers. Armando Gustav Wiberg wrote:

Hi Stut! Exactly what does that mean? Do you have any references? Please send :-) Best regards /Gustav Wiberg -----Original Message----- From: Stut [mailto:stuttle@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:02 PM To: trystano@aol.com Cc: george.pitcher@ingenta.com; gustav@hmn.se; php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] open/download file not under www-root trystano@aol.com wrote:

I thought accessing files/directories above the www-root via the web was impossible???

Directly yes, but you can proxy it through a server-side script. -Stut