Re: Link to download files on another part of system

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Ave,

I¹m going to try creating the sharepoint within my webserver, as suggested
by you and tijnema. I think that¹s probably the easiest and quickest
solution to this. I¹ll report back!

Thanks!


On 3/29/07 4:48 PM, "Daniel Brown" <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
>     Rahul,
> 
>     Your best bet in this case, with the most minimal coding, would be to
> either symlink the individual files into a web-accessible directory, or
> symlink the directory containing those files into a web-accessible location.
> However, this part would be up to you, determinable by your current system
> configuration and potential security risks ( e.g. - the directory is also the
> parent directory for information needing to remain secure, so we don't want to
> symlink the directory).
> 
>     Another option would be to read the file through a script and output it
> sending a MIME type prior to the data output, placing the name of the file on
> the server into the output bugger head so that the user would see it simply as
> a direct download.
> 
> On 3/29/07, Rahul Sitaram Johari <sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ave,
>> 
>> This is actually a continuation of my previous ³Show files using Wildcards²
>> thread, but a different problem.
>> 
>> Code:
>> 
>>     <?php
>>     exec("find /Users/rjohari/Documents/XFER/espi -type f -name
>> ".$row['PHONE']."*.vox", $files);
>>     foreach ($files as $value) {
>>     echo "<font face=arial size=1><a
>> href='/Users/rjohari/Documents/XFER/osm/ESPI/".basename($value)."'>".basenam
>> e($value)."</a></font><BR>";
>>     }
>>     ?>
>> 
>> The files I¹m linking to, in order to let the User download them, reside on
>> a mounted share on my system. They are on in the Apache Web Server htdocs
>> folder where my website resides. How do I make these files available to
>> download if they are not in my webserver folder?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Rahul Sitaram Johari
>> CEO, Twenty Four Seventy Nine Inc.
>> 
>> W: http://www.rahulsjohari.com
>> E: sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 
>> ³I morti non sono piu soli ... The dead are no longer lonely²
>> 
> 
> 



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