RE: [PHP-WIN] open/download file not under www-root

Hi there! Thank you! It worked so fine.. Cool! :-) Best regards /Gustav Wiberg -----Original Message----- From: Armando [mailto:dijital@shaw.ca] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 4:10 AM To: Gustav Wiberg Cc: 'Stut'; 'trystano@aol.com'; 'george.pitcher@ingenta.com'; 'php-windows@lists.php.net' Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] 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 > No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.5/990 - Release Date: 2007-09-04 22:36