pdfs

[BSF]

Hi

I am working with IIS 5.0, php 5, and adobe 6.0

I have a php script that creates a table of links to existing pdf files on the server.

I am using the <a href anchor type code to call the pdf when the user clicks the name.

the pdf files are in c:\whatever\somewhere.

Now when I check to see if the file exists all is well since that is a server side operation.

but when the user's browser tries to open the file, it can't find it, because there, of course, is no c:\whatever\somewhere on their machine.

I have tried adding the server name to the call but that doesn't work, in fact it stops working when using the ap from the server itself if you do this (it of course works fine when you are on the server and using the ap).

not sure what trick I'm missing. i.e. how to create the href address so that it looks on the c drive of the server not the user's.

or is the standard href anchor not the way to do this...

thanks

[vronsky]

But the pdfs are served by a public web server?
And are they located in a public directory of the webserver?
(ex http://mysite/pdf/file.pdf)

[BSF]

no they are on what I guess you would call a local web server, i.e. my pc is set up with IIS and the user is connecting to it. In asp you would use Server.URLPathEncode(filelocation) and just use an <a href anchor... is there some equiv for php.

[vronsky]

I never used IIS, but logic tells me you have to put your file in a directory under your webserver public directory:
how could you expect anybody could open private files on your pc ?(I don't know IIS,I repeat)

[BSF]

so to clarify the path would be something like localhost/c:/whatever/somewhere/something.pdf

[vronsky]

http://localhost/somewhat/somewhere