On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 09:38 -0500, Boyd, Todd M. wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 7:16 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: uploading file outside WEB Root > > > > Could you use a symbolic link? If on Linux 'ln -s /fpath/foldername'? > > > > Not sure how to do this on Windows > > > > 2008/9/1 Carlos Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Angelo Zanetti schrieb: > > > > > >> Hi All, > > >> For security purposes I would like to upload a file outside the > > webroot. > > >> > > >> I have got this to work on my local dev machine but it doesn't seem > > to > > >> work > > >> on the live server. > > ---8<--- snip > > AFAIK, there is no good way to accomplish this on a Windows system. You > can map a network location to a drive, and you can even map a folder to > a drive... but I've never seen any way to map something to a folder (or > file). If there is a solution, it's probably a complex registry hack > that MIGHT work with your version of Windows.
<tirade> Microsoft sucks because it doesn't have symbolic links. </tirade> ;) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
