Launching LC stack from server, accessing file outside home

[shawnblc]

Like php.

If I distribute an app with a splash screen that accesses the main application on the server, can that app that I upload to the server also access files outside of the public_html directory?

Example:

put url ("file:" & home/username/newdir/list.txt) into tList
answer tList

[Klaus]

HI Shawn,

not sure what you mean?
Do you access your "main application" (which is a livecode stack, I think?) with:
...
go url("http://www.some_server/folder/mainapp.livecode")
...
?

If yes, then no!
Since that stack is NOT on the server anymore, but on your machine.

If that is not what you mean, I need more info.


Best

Klaus

[shawnblc]

Splash screen -----> distributed to others
-----> splash screen accesses main app on the server
-------> main app on server accesses a text file on the same server that is outside of the home directory


Is that possible?

[FourthWorld]

For security reasons, Apache won't allow any client to access file outside the web root. But you can write a CGI to do that, since CGI's have all the permissions you do when you shell in.

[shawnblc]

For security reasons, Apache won't allow any client to access file outside the web root. But you can write a CGI to do that, since CGI's have all the permissions you do when you shell in.

Gotcha. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!


Update: tested and works. Thanks Richard.