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Alex Polly
Alex Polly

Reputation: 76

Open file:///path/index.html from localhost

Any idea how to browse file:///C:/Results/index.html from localhost using a href?

i created the test html file (C:/ser/xampp/htdocs/filter/file.html) and place the link to local page (C:/Results/index.html) and i tired to open that link from (http://localhost/filter/file.html) it didn't work. But when i tired to open link from (file:///C:/ser/xampp/htdocs/filter/file.html) it worked.

I hope this make sense.

I googled it but didn't find any useful solution. Any idea how to solve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 14540

Answers (1)

Saranya Sadhasivam
Saranya Sadhasivam

Reputation: 1294

If the path is given like as below and if you access from localhost, it will make a search for a file which is inside htdocs folder

<a href="file:///C:/Results/index.html">Click Here</a>

To access the C:/Results folder, create a VirtualHost for the C:/Results and give that respective ip to the href like below. So that you can access the file from localhost.

<a href="http://192.168.1.4:1003/index.html">Click Here</a>

To create VirtualHost, * Open /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and enter the below lines. Dont delete other lines

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.4:1003>
DocumentRoot "file:///C:/Results"
</VirtualHost>

* Open /etc/apache2/ports.conf and enter the below lines. Dont delete other lines

Listen 1003

* Restart apache.

Upvotes: 1

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