Access files outside the document root for Apache

vwvr9 · 07-28-2008, 08:15 AM

I sorta stuck.

My main site is hosted out of /var/www/html/ . I have a user processing php file /home/user/scripts/process.php .

I am (actually my client) trying to setup sub-domains which will directly access the the process.php file without publishing that file.

Is this possible? mod_rewrite only handles the url namespace so I guess that won't work.

Any advice?

yancek · 07-28-2008, 09:21 AM

If your intent is to have the 'process.php' file outside the standard /var/www/html you should have a public_html directory in your user directory: /home/vwvr9/public_html. You need to have 'public_html' listed under User Directory in your httpd.conf file for apache. If you don't have the public_html directory, create and put your 'process.php' file there. To access this in the browser you do the standard entry for localhost and add '~vwvr9/process.php' to the entry.

Not sure if this is what you want?

vwvr9 · 07-28-2008, 03:23 PM

Hi Yancek, I guess that will work but the process.php file is still published to the web right?

I was thinking of using "include" or "require" in my index.php file to call process.php from the non-document root.

What you think?

yancek · 07-28-2008, 05:28 PM

I'm not really sure I understand what you are trying to achieve? If you don't want others to access limit permissions?