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Adrian Buzea
Adrian Buzea

Reputation: 836

Link to file on local hard drive

I'm trying to display the contents of a folder on my local HDD as links in a web browser. This is how I get the contents of a folder

$dir = scandir($path);
            foreach($dir as $token)
            {
                if(($token != ".") && ($token != ".."))
                {
                    if(is_dir($path.'/'.$token))
                    {
                        $folders[] = $token;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        $files[] = $token;
                    }
                }
            }
            foreach($folders as $folder)
            {
                $newpath = $path.'/'.$folder;
                echo "<a href = tema2.php?cale=$newpath> [ $folder ] </a>" . "<br>";
            }
            foreach($files as $file)
            {
                $newpath = $path.'/'.$file;
                echo "<a href = file:///$newpath> $file </a>" . "<br>";
            }

Everything works fine except the links to the files which do nothing when pressed. The links that show up in my web browser are like this : "file:///C:/folder/test.txt". Tried this is Firefox, Chrome and IE.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 11106

Answers (3)

dynamichael
dynamichael

Reputation: 1

I circumvent this by creating symbolic links in the apache document folder to any folders containing content I wish to share. So say I want to serve up files from "Z:/Media/", I create a symbolic link named "Media" within "D:/Server/HTTP/" (my Apache document root folder) and then I can serve a file from there such as "/Media/Movies/Fargo.mp4".

Upvotes: 0

andrew
andrew

Reputation: 9583

If the file is outside of the scope of the web server's folder it will not be able to access the file to deliver it.

You can either create a file handler to deliver the files:

so change echo "<a href = file:///$newpath> $file </a>" . "<br>";

to echo "<a href = \"fileHandler.php?file=$file\"" . "<br>";

and create fileHandler.php as:

<?php
    $file = $_GET['file'];
    header('content-type:application/'.end(explode('.',$file)));
    Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . $file); //to set download filename
    exit(file_get_contents($file));
?>

or bypass the web server and link to file directly (this will only work over LAN or VPN)

so change echo "<a href = file:///$newpath> $file </a>" . "<br>";

to echo "<a href ='$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]/$newpath/$file'>$file</a><br />"

Upvotes: 4

Nimrod007
Nimrod007

Reputation: 9913

This will not work

you cant link a file outside of Apache's htdocs folder

2 options :

1) move the files you need to htdocs

2) use virtual hosts / DocumentRoot

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/en/urlmapping.html

Make XAMPP/Apache serve file outside of htdocs

Upvotes: 1

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