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Asked: 2026-06-05T21:59:40+00:00

Just to give a little background: I’m using Dreamweaver CS5 for coding php, XAMPP

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Just to give a little background:
I’m using Dreamweaver CS5 for coding php, XAMPP apache as a test server, and 000WebHost.com for free hosting for testing on a remote server.

I coded an application with a login form that requests images and stores them above webroot along with a few other secure files. All of the program works 100% perfectly on apache as my test server on my laptop. The second I copied the files to my remote server, any links attempting to access outside webroot are broken. I can get to my login page and a simple processing script that is under webroot, but not past it.

Why are my links suddenly broken? I triple checked that all of the relative paths are correct, using a file structure such as:

  • Includes
  • Images
  • Secure
  • public_html

from public_html, I used the file path:
$path = ‘../Secure/test1.php’;

Thanks for any help, I really need to finish this soon.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As said Musa, you shouldn’t be able to access anything outside you “public_html” directory. Instead, you should put all the other directories in it, and change (if needed) relative paths of the links so that they work wit ha structure like this:

    public_html
|
|_Includes
|
|_Images
|
|_Secure

    EDIT: As said in my comment to this answer, i’m referring to the hosting company you are using, not to each and every hoster out there. It’s a free one, not everything is as we want it 🙂

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