How to create a link to download generated documents in symfony2?

Question

Documents are created by the system and saved to the folder /web/downloads. I have created a view to display links which will allow a user to download the files, should the

Answer 1

Let's make a sample.

Say your project lives in /www/, so /www/web/ is the document root of your symfony2 application. Now everything you try to access that is in /www/web/ over http://server/ will show up.

/www/web/downloads/file.zip would be reachable at http://server/downloads/file.zip by default.