Link to a file in a higher level folder

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I'm having troubles serving a document which is in a higher level than my root folder. ``` Proposal ``` In the browser the above gets interpreted as: ``` http://localhost/home/folder/document.docx ``` I cannot see the browser going up in the folders and then the answer I get is: ``` Not Found The requested URL /home/folder/document.docx was not found on this server. ``` I have tried in Firefox and Chrome, it happens the same. I am using Apache Web Server on a Linux machine. Any help will be appreciated.

Accepted Answer

You can not redirect your visitors to a file outside of your document root (where you have your index.html). People can't see files higher than where `http://localhost/` ends up in.

A solution would be to put that `.docx` inside of your document root (where your index.html is in).

You can however let PHP serve the file using the readfile function. But don't forget that www-data would need to have access to the file you're serving.

Link to a file in a higher level folder

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