I want to access files which is outside the var folder in linux server and my codeigniter-3 project inside /var/www/html.
and the files inside /data folder.
"/data/admin_assets/upload_files/Photos/nala/start_photo.jpg" that is the path stored in the data base so when i access this url I have get 404- Not found Error
You can use readfile of PHP to read a file and return to browser. An example can be use like this:
<?php
$file = "/data/admin_assets/upload_files/Photos/nala/start_photo.jpg";
if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
readfile($file);
exit;
}
?>
And make sure you set permission so that web server can access that directory: data/admin_assets/upload_files/Photos/nala/