Posted by Guillermo Rauch on 03/06/05 21:26

> Hello,
> I want to open files in a directory other than the Document root via
> HTTP on the client machine. How do i do it ?
Yes, it's possible

Just supose you have the images under /var/images/. This won't be
acceded by apache since it's out of documentroot.

You can set up some alias to /var/images

For example
alias /images/ /var/images/

The problem is, that most servers don't let users access
directories outside the DocumentRoot of the customers VirtualHost.

Also, if you can read that directory, you can create a path images in
your documentroot, and create a .htaccess file like this:

ErrorDocument 404 image.php

In image.php you catch the referrer with $_SERVER['http_referrer'] and
display the image sending the header img/jpeg

> Also, Is there a way that I can force the .JPG files to open in a
> particular software ?
No.

Best,
Guillermo Rauch.

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