Question

I am currently saving uploaded images at /cakephp/uploads/ instead of doing it inside /cakephp/app/webroot/imgs/.

When i try to access the image by URL, with something like this:

http://myweb.com/cakephp/uploads/imageName.jpg

It shows a 404 error. I guess, due to the .htaccess, or more concretely, to the web.config file that i use under windows with ISS7.

Is there any way to access to them without modifying the web.config file?

Thanks.

Answer 1

it is my understanding that anything not placed in the webroot folder cannot be accessed directly via a url. To access files outside of the webroot, you can use Media Views.

I’d just put your uploads folder inside your APP folder, http://myweb.com/cakephp/app/uploads

then just adjust path to path => APP . 'uploads' . DS

It’s not clear why you want to do this; if you want to just access the images like normal, place the uploads in to your img directory.

Typically you’d use this approach for serving files etc, allowing user authentication and so on.