copy file from a directory(outsi de webroot) to another directory

[foss]

hi all,
I am not able to copy file from a directory in the server to another directory.
Here,
the source is outside the web root directory and the destination is inside the web root directory.

I got a warning

Warning: copy(http://localhost/files/../../fileUploads/photo1.JPG) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in D:\wamp\www\fil es\test.php on line 3

The code is as follows:

$destination="http://localhost/files/fileUploads/photo1.JPG";
$source="http://localhost/files/../../fileUploads/photo1.JPG";
copy($source, $destination);
 
 

[Dormilich]

well, yes.... you cannot access files outside the server root (it's a security measure). the only chance is trying to execute a shell command (or whatever it is called in windows)

[Markus]

You could use a system path, like so:

$destination = "c:\xampp\htdocs\dir\file.txt";
$source = "c:\xampp\secure\file.txt";