从外部Web根目录在Apache Server中运行Html文件

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.