I'm working on a project for myself and will be offering downloads.
I would like to hide or redirect the path to the folder containing the zip files (should I be concerned of this? I think so). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
2:44 PM Apr 27, 2010
Bilal
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No need to hide the path, it is not difficult to guess anyway once the download starts.
Add to your .htaccess the following code:
Options -Indexes
It prevents directory listings for URLs which map to a directory. Of course you can also add a blank "index.html" to your zip directory.
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Bilal
5:55 AM May 5, 2010
tomw
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You can hide the path with this simple script:
<?php // Path and name of file $file = "./designs/coollew/bamboo.zip"; header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); // you can use any name, the extension should match file type header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=CoolLew_Bamboo.zip"); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); ob_clean(); flush(); readfile($file); ?>
As you can see, it will be difficult to guess the actual path.
Here you can get the file from a remote site.
<?php // get data from remote site $data = file_get_contents("http://www.yoururlhere.com/file.zip" ; $fp = fopen("tmp.zip","w"); fwrite($fp, $data); fclose($fp); header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); // you can use any name, the extension should match file type header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=CoolLew_vacation.zip"); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize("tmp.zip")); ob_clean(); flush(); readfile("tmp.zip"); ?>
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