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Absolute path issue

6/16/2022 7:00:14 PM
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alfonso authorDevClub member

I have a problem uploading photos. If the path is relative to a directory within the application, it is correct. I put ".../photos" and it works. But I want the photo to be uploaded to a different subdomain and so I put an absolute url:
"https://subdomain.domain/photos" but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Thank you

mbintex 6/22/2022

I would simply guess that it would be a security issue, if any PHP installation and code could write to any distant location it tried to ...

Sergey Kornilov admin 6/22/2022

I think you are confusing the absolute URL with the absolute path to the folder. The absolute path may look like this (on a Windows system):
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\website\folder