Help with URl

[undbund]

Hi, i have a pdf file located at the following location:
http://www.somedomain.com/2006/members/news/somepdf.pdf

I want to be able to access the same pdf from the same location but
with the follwing url

http://www.somedomain.com/2006/news/somepdf.pdf

or

http://www.somedomain.com/2006/news/view/somepdf.pdf

where view is actually a php file view.php

Notice that i have hidden the members directory!

How can i achieve this, how can i (hide/add extra) certain sections of
the url, to prevent the user from knowing the actual url from the
address bar of the browser.

Thanks
undbund

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: Help with URl

undbund wrote:

Hi, i have a pdf file located at the following location:
http://www.somedomain.com/2006/members/news/somepdf.pdf
>
I want to be able to access the same pdf from the same location but
with the follwing url
>
http://www.somedomain.com/2006/news/somepdf.pdf
>
or
>
http://www.somedomain.com/2006/news/view/somepdf.pdf
>
where view is actually a php file view.php
>
Notice that i have hidden the members directory!
>
How can i achieve this, how can i (hide/add extra) certain sections of
the url, to prevent the user from knowing the actual url from the
address bar of the browser.
>
Thanks
undbund
>

Not a PHP question.

My first suggestion would be to create a logical link for the file.
Other than that, check a newsgroup related to your OS and/nor
alt.Apache.Conf iguration

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[Chuck Anderson]

Re: Help with URl

undbund wrote:

Hi, i have a pdf file located at the following location:
http://www.somedomain.com/2006/members/news/somepdf.pdf
>
I want to be able to access the same pdf from the same location but
with the follwing url
>
http://www.somedomain.com/2006/news/somepdf.pdf
>
or
>
http://www.somedomain.com/2006/news/view/somepdf.pdf
>
where view is actually a php file view.php
>
Notice that i have hidden the members directory!
>
How can i achieve this, how can i (hide/add extra) certain sections of
the url, to prevent the user from knowing the actual url from the
address bar of the browser.
>
Thanks
undbund
>
>

For the second case, *and* if members is literally the name of the
directory, serve the file from view.php like so:

<?php

$file = $_SERVER'[PATH_INFO']
// in some cases it's ORIG_PATH_INFO - use phpinfo to take a look

// set the correct path here
$file = '/2006/members/news/' . $file;

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file) );

// to download
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($file) );

// to open in browser
// header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename=' . basename($file) );

readfile($file) ;
?>


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