file outside public_html

[Leszek]

Hi.
Is it possible to pass to a script a path to a file which is outside
public_html?

I have this function :

function okno( film ){
gora = screen.height/2-315;
lewy = screen.width/2-350;
oknoFilm =
window.open(fil m,'oknoFilm','m enubar=no,locat ion=no,toolbar= no,scrollbars=n o,status=no,res izable=yes,widt h=700,height=63 0,left='+lewy
+',top='+gora +'');
oknoFilm.focus( );
}

film should be a path to html file...

but when later i'm trying to call
okno('/home/ab17661/domains/szachy.biz/filmy/film2.html');
but i'm getting IE error "file not found"

When the file was in public_html folder
okno('filmy/film2.html');
was working fine

I need to make sure that only registered users will access this file that's
why i put it outside public_html

Could you help me?

Thanks.
Leszek

[bobzimuta]

Leszek wrote:

Hi.
Is it possible to pass to a script a path to a file which is outside
public_html?

That invalidates the purpose of a web server. Your script (or any
agent) requests files from the server. If the file is not within the
domain of publicly available files specified to the server, you're SOL.

Rather, you need to implement some kind of user authentication (basic,
digest, ip restriction, custom server-side script and database) that
prevents unauthorized users from accessing the content.