I'm not sure I follow... here's more: http://www.example.com/viewfiles.php for example can list the files from /mnt/mysharename b/c PHP can access the file system. The web server has NO rights to /mnt/mysharename so the web URL for a file can't be http://www.example.com/myfirstfile.pdf and it can't be http://www.example.com/mnt/mysharename/myfirstfile.pdf. Those just don't make sense. Does Apache need a directive that puts /mnt/mysharename as a valid web directory, or an alias folder in /var/www/html/ or some other method?
hope that helps more, thanks! David McD On 7/13/05, John Berninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, David McDowell wrote: > > > We are building an app with apache/php that will allow users to upload > > and download files. I'd like to store the files on my Win fileserver > > to make backups easier, the linux box attaches to the share at > > /mnt/mysharename and works great with PHP displaying the directory > > contents to a web user, however, I can't actually "link" to the file > > that way, or am doing so incorrectly. > > > > What is recommended? mount to a different point, an alias to the mnt > > point from Apache, a different/new directive in httpd.conf?? > > Take a look at the readfile() command in PHP - create a wrapper > that does some sanity checking, then readfile()'s a filename based on > URL or parameters. > > > > > thanks, > > David McD > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > > > -- > John Berninger > > GPG Key ID: A8C1D45C > Fingerprint: B1BB 90CB 5314 3113 CF22 66AE 822D 42A8 A8C1 D45C > > Ita erat quando hic adveni. > -- > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
