How to echo image that is outside of the public folder

Question

In this project, I am uploading admin submitted files to a folder which is outside of the public folder.

/web/ (the public folder)
/upload/ (uploading image to t         


        

Answer 1

You normally do not access directories outside web root.

A quick solution is to add a alias in apache config like

alias /upload/ /www/userid/upload/

inside the virtualhosts

and use

/upload/photo.jpg