On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, David McDowell wrote:
> 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?
PHP can list the dir, so PHP *should* be able to read the files.
Build the viewfiles.php page so that the hyperlinks are pointing
at things like getfile.php?file=myfirstfile.pdf and then have
getfile.php do sanity checking (lots of sanity checking) and then just
readfile($file).
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