List files from directory not in apache web directory

[froditus]

Hello everyone,

is it possible to list files from directory other than in apache web
directory?
my web folder is placed on c:/ and i put my files in windows directory
"d:/files/images/".
I want those files to be able to view in client browser. when i tested
using server computer it succeed. but from client computer i got
nothing.
I checked the html sources and the files is directly loaded from "d:/
files/images/file_name.jpg" and then i found out why computer client
could not load that files.

is there any other way to make it happened ?

thank you guys for any kind of help.

best regards.

[George Maicovschi]

Re: List files from directory not in apache web directory

On Apr 4, 12:17 pm, froditus <frodi...@gmail .comwrote:

Hello everyone,
>
is it possible to list files from directory other than in apache web
directory?
my web folder is placed on c:/ and i put my files in windows directory
"d:/files/images/".
I want those files to be able to view in client browser. when i tested
using server computer it succeed. but from client computer i got
nothing.
I checked the html sources and the files is directly loaded from "d:/
files/images/file_name.jpg" and then i found out why computer client
could not load that files.
>
is there any other way to make it happened ?
>
thank you guys for any kind of help.
>
best regards.

It will not be accessible from the client computer because apache
cannot interpret the path.
You should build a php script that gets a parameter, let's say
'file_name.jpg' and goes and fetches it and than outputs it (using
gd). The script should know the image folder, and not $_GET it,
because that might be a security risk.

Cheers,
George.

[Michael Austin]

Re: List files from directory not in apache web directory

froditus wrote:

Hello everyone,
>
is it possible to list files from directory other than in apache web
directory?
my web folder is placed on c:/ and i put my files in windows directory
"d:/files/images/".
I want those files to be able to view in client browser. when i tested
using server computer it succeed. but from client computer i got
nothing.
I checked the html sources and the files is directly loaded from "d:/
files/images/file_name.jpg" and then i found out why computer client
could not load that files.
>
is there any other way to make it happened ?
>
thank you guys for any kind of help.
>
best regards.

html sources? post the code snippet on how you read the d:... directory.

I use something like this which creates a dropdown list of files in a
specific directory not under the htdocs directory structure:
echo "<form method=post action=mydosome thing.php>";
echo "<br><tr><selec t name=dlfile>";
if ($mydir = @opendir("/my/dir/path"))
{
while($filename = readdir($mydir) )
// if (eregi("^a_+[A-Za-z0-9_]+\.jpg", $filename))
echo "<option
value=$filename >$filename</option><br>";
}
closedir($mydir );
echo "</select><br><p>" ;

this submits to another php script that performs a specific tasks when
selecting a filename.

Remember that the web server will need read and/or write privs depending
on what you are doing with this. I would in no way make this executable
by the web server. Some OS's allow for explicitly being able to
disable executable while enabling read/write.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: List files from directory not in apache web directory

froditus wrote:

Hello everyone,
>
is it possible to list files from directory other than in apache web
directory?
my web folder is placed on c:/ and i put my files in windows directory
"d:/files/images/".
I want those files to be able to view in client browser. when i tested
using server computer it succeed. but from client computer i got
nothing.
I checked the html sources and the files is directly loaded from "d:/
files/images/file_name.jpg" and then i found out why computer client
could not load that files.
>
is there any other way to make it happened ?
>
thank you guys for any kind of help.
>
best regards.
>

This isn't a PHP question - what you need to do is configure your server
properly. Try alt.apache.conf iguration.

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