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Leepoff
Leepoff

Reputation: 154

Accessing files above the web server document root folder

Reading elsewhere, I have come across the concept of placing files I don't want accessible to the public above my web root folder. Doing this on my local WAMP stack works without issue, but once transferring over to my VPS (running Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS) the PHP scripts can only see files under the root directory.

VirtualHost setup for my subdomain:

<VirtualHost *:80>  
# Admin email, Server Name (domain name), and any aliases
ServerAdmin #####@####.com
ServerName admin.########.com
ServerAlias www.admin.########.com

# Index file and Document Root (where the public files are located)
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php admin.php
DocumentRoot /srv/www/#######.com/public_html/admin/web_pages

<Directory /srv/www/#######.com/public_html/admin/web_pages>
    Options +Indexes
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

# Log file locations
LogLevel warn
ErrorLog /srv/www/########.com/logs/error.log
CustomLog /srv/www/########.com/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Log error given: File does not exist: /srv/www/#######.com/public_html/admin/web_pages/css, referer: http://www.admin.########.com/

(My css folder is above the web_pages folder, and is called via this path: ../css/####.css)

Is this an issue with my configuration settings, or am I attempting to do something I shouldn't be, and instead have everything I need under my web root? I would really like constants files and application logic not accessible, but css,html pages, and images are ok.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3881

Answers (1)

Mihail
Mihail

Reputation: 1651

If you want to grant public access to some folders above web root, you may use Alias directive:

Alias /css/ "/srv/www/#######.com/public_html/admin/css"
<Directory /srv/www/#######.com/public_html/admin/css>
# some configuration directives here   
</Directory>

After that, your css files will be accessible via new path (without ..): /css/####.css

Don't forget to switch on mod_alias Apache module

Upvotes: 2

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