I have a folder which contain HTML, CSS, JS, image files across various folders. For security reasons I want to place it outside the web root.
I have come across a solution using file_get_contents function of PHP.
But then there is a problem with hyper-linking present in the page. For example, the link to the javascript file in the page:
<script src="lms/APIConstants.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
searches for the file in http://localhost/lms/APIConstants.js and returns an error of
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
http://localhost/lms/APIConstants.js
I am aware of using .htaccess file for hiding some folders from the web root. I am looking for some other insightful solution.
Finally solved this.. Might be helpful for others.
Steps that were followed:
Use a separate file for reading from outside web root (say filereader.php).
Call this file with URL encoding the local file path. http://localhost.ca/lms/filereader.php/path/to/local/file.html
Parse the URL to get the path - /path/to/local/file.html
Apply PHP's readfile() function to read from the obtained path.
Doing this, all the hyperlinks in file.html gets loaded from the following path.
http://localhost.ca/lms/filereader.php/path/to/local/
The mime-type for each file has to be defined. Also a proper http response code is to be thrown using PHP's http_response_code() when a file is not found.
Note: You might need to enable AcceptPathInfo in the Apache configuration.
when you include a file then code/script runs according to new path on which it is being included.
It finds the APIConstants.js file into the folder Ims which is in root directory.
but actually it is outside the root directory.
So give the path like this.. If Ims folder is one step down to the root directory.
src="../lms/APIConstants.js"
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I am working on an AJAX post from which needs to send data to a php file. This file is ONE located level above the domain root.
If my domain root is /root_general/root_domain/
The file php backend file is in /root_general/
I am trying to achieve this by using the dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) url. But AJAX won't load the file, it tells me that the file wasn't found on this server. I am using Apache2 on Ubuntu and working with all permissions enabled.
How can I do it in other way? I need to put the file outside because it is supposed to be used by many different domains, and I think it wouldn't be clean to paste the same file inside every single domain root.
Edit: some code
When calling the file it's this way:
http[act].open('post',url,true);
You can't use AJAX to access files on the server. You can use it only to access URLs. So what you need to do is point an URL to that file you want to access. You can give it own domain, you can copy it a few times or you can have symlinks point to it.
For some reason when I create a project in netbeans and go to run the project it also loads the xxamp index file and not the project index file that is apart of the codeigniter installation.
http://screencast.com/t/qOSH80wPgvf
Edit:
Here is my file tree I have right now set up for my project. Why Netbeans creates an important files folder I have no idea for my CI project. I have edited the index file to have the application and system variable to both have the ../system or applicaton as its value. I have changed the Web Root inside the project properties to have a value of public_html and I have also changed the value of the Index File field to say index.php.
After doing this and running the project I would expect to get the default Welcome to Codeigniter page and I don't. I am receiving a message that shows the following. Any ideas on why this is?
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 404
localhost
Apache/2.4.4 (Win32) OpenSSL/0.9.8y PHP/5.4.16
Projects
- MyFirstProject
- Source Files
- application
- public_html
- assets
index.php
- system
- Test Files
- Important Files
- Include Path
I've tried doing some additional research on the topic and have yet to come up with a solution.
Edit 2:
Any ideas from anyone?
Your problem is likely related to your choice of folder layout. Which I assume you do, for "security reasons". That said, NetBeans isn't a server. Its an IDE, so you can't manipulate it the same way you would the server.
Most servers by default define your "root" folder as "public_html" or "www" as far as where it looks by default to serve files for public consumption. Through the use of PHP you can tell the index.php that comes with CodeIgniter to look up one directory outside of the defined root and have it read the file(s) accordingly.
However, to setup a project in netbeans and have all files and folder accounted for accordingly you need to tell it that all your files start in whatever folder they reside. So it can load all the files and read from them respectively. This in essence and in respect to server logic is telling it that the folder that houses
application
public_html
system
is the define root path. So inadvertantly by breaking out of the design of codeigniter and placing the core files outside of what would be your defined root on the server is breaking your project. There is not an index.php depicted in your listing above at the same level that those folders are in. If there is, its the index.php for xxamp that keeps loading for you by default.
What you need to do is stop trying to implement your "security measures" and put them in the right order. Or.. not include that folder in your project telling it the one with assets and index.php is the root path. If netbeans is smart enough it will find the files and folders outside like the server will.
Right click on your project and go to properties. Make sure that in the run configuration the URL is correct and the index file is properly set up and matches your directory in xxamp.
after downloading codeigniter open index.php file and there set your path correctly to your
application folder because i think you putted your index.php inside public_html folder so
the path which is set by default in index.php is not working and can not find application folder, try to fix it and it will work fine your problem is not with netbeans.
(Please be patient, this does have something to do with include.) I am waiting for a domain to transfer over and am trying to set it up on the new hosting service ahead of time. I realized that on the old site all the path names were absolute, so all my links on the new host point to pages on the old host. I decided to make them all relative (for future possible moves also). I first did it like this:
index.php
include ('./header.php');
header.php
include "./panel.php";
panel.php
Contents of panel.
This works, and my page displays:
Contents of panel.
Then I decided to set a variable for the domain because I want to include this header file from files in subdirectories and I can use the domain variable to make an absolute path. Right now I have a temporary domain name, which I can change later to the real domain name when the transfer comes through. So I changed header.php to:
$domain="http://tempdomain.com"; //I can change this after the transfer
$panel=$domain."/panel.php";
echo $panel;
if ((include $panel) !== 1)
{
echo "<br>include failed";
}
What I get is:
http://tempdomain.com/panel.php
include failed
I've looked at various sites for include syntax, but I can't find any error in my code. All these files are in the / directory. Any ideas?
When you include, you have to give the directory structured, not the url.
Your hosting server path may be home/public/www/htdocs/your_directory_name/panel.php something like this. Then it will work.
remort include is also posiible
if
1. server's php.ini should allow it.
2. the file which will be included should not be preprossed before include. That means it must return unprocessed code :)
First, the allow_url_fopen flag must be set in php.ini. Otherwise remote include() cannot be done. Run var_dump(ini_get("allow_url_fopen")); to see if it is the case.
Second, "Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support access of remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled." - see PHP docs
Third, your remote PHP script must produce valid PHP code as output. If you include() via http, then not the script itself, but its output will be included.
I am developing a website on php, I have installed wamp on my personal computer and my website files are in the www folder of wamp.
now considering www as my root folder i have a template folder in the root folder and header.inc.html file in the template folder. when I try to include this header.inc.html file in any other php file using an absolute path include('/template/header.inc.html'); it gives me error "Failed to open stream: No such file or directory", but when I create a simple html link using the same absolute path it works perfectly and opens the file. below is my test code
<?php
echo 'headerfile';
include('/template/header.inc.html');
?>
if I give the full path for example C:/wamp/www/template/header.inc.html to the include function it works fine.
I am confused that this problem is occurring on my wamp server only and it would work perfectly on any webhost server, or maybe the same problem will exist on a webhost
I would appreciate any help that would clarify my confusion, Thanks.
Absolute paths on the server start from the server's hard disk (C:\).
Absolute paths on the client start from the root of the website (http://example.com/).
You can make use of __DIR__ to make some file on disk relative to the php-file on disk itself:
include(__DIR__.'/template/header.inc.html');
This should solve your issue.
The difference is not that easy to explain because both types of paths - even related - are two pair of shoes. I suggest you start with a very basic HTML website tutorial that explains how to link on your website and where files are located and how that is related to the webserver configuration.
HTML pages live in the client's browser that know nothing about your server's folder structure, and they're relative to the domain name eg. http://example.com/.
PHP programs run on the server side and they deal with the server folders. You shouldn't hardcode full paths in your php programs, because it will cause problems whenever you'll move them between the development server and the live host (just to name an example). Therefore in php files you should either use relative paths to your file, or use the __DIR__ magic constant that gets substituted with the directory where the php file is.
1.) First approach: include('template/header.inc.html');
2.) Second approach: include(__DIR__ .'/template/header.inc.html');
In your case (working on a development machine) both the client and the server is the same box, that might be confusing you.
On my server, a website resides within a directory similar to /domains/domain.com/public_html. I wish to keep the domain at this path, as all the main files are there, but is there any way to source some files from another location in my server, eg. /global/script.js?
In short, I hope to write a mod-rewrite than can source specific files from outside the DocumentRoot, or something very similar, but I cannot work out a solution.
I figure I could manage this by directing all files to a PHP script (css, js, php, images, etc), which will then work out what file is requested, load the files contents and return it with the correct header. I feel this will more than likely slow down all requests because I believe this requires more processes, is this correct?
No need for mod_rewrite: If all files are in the same directory, you can use alias.
Alias /MyMapDir /global/resources
a request to example.com/MyMapDir/script.js will be mapped to /global/resources/script.js
Note that this works in httpd.conf only!