[RESOLVED] 404 Not found when open a file in new window

kristo5747

Greetings!

I am building a simple form based app to search for files on a server.

I want the user to enter a suffix for the file to look for and click the name of the matching to open it in a new window.

This is the source code:

<html>
    <head>
        <title></title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="search.php" method="post">        

            file suffix to search: <input type="text" name="filesearch" />        

            <input type="submit" />
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

This is the code for the search:

<?php
$mysearch = $_POST['filesearch'];
$mydir = "/vendors/logfiles/PASS";

$dir = opendir($mydir);

if ($dir ) {
    //List files in directory
    while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
    //Ignores OS stuff.
    if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
        if (preg_match('/.'.$mysearch. '$/', $file)) {
    //Creates hyperlink to open file in new windows upon selection.
            echo '<a href="' .  $mydir . '/' . $file
            . '"  target="_blank">' . $file . "</a><br>";
        }
    }
    closedir($dir);
} else { echo "opendir() returned FALSE!<br>";
    exit;}
?>

The script works but the problem is that the hyperlink I create is wrong ; Obviously I get a "404 not found" error when I click it.

Instead of my URL being

/vendors/logfiles/PASS/B0232134_2009_05_01.PASS

I get

http://localhost/vendors/logfiles/PASS/B0232134_2009_05_01.PASS

How can I correct this? Can someone please help?

Thanks.

Al.

dagon

your browser does not know where on the internet /vendors ... is, specify the full site url

kristo5747

The problem was the path (sorry to state the obvious).

What I did is create a symbolic link (like a shortcut with MS Windows, I guess) under the directory where my script is located. The link points to the target being the "hard" directories i.e "/vendors/logfiles/PASS" and "/vendors/logfiles/FAIL".

It now works for both local user (i.e. me on localhost) and remote users pointing their browsers to http://<whatever_ip_address>/MyApp.

Al.

<?php
$mydir =  $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/MyApp/vendors/logfiles/PASS";
$mysearch = $_POST['filesearch'];

$dir = opendir($mydir);

if ($dir ) {
    //List files in directory
    while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
    //Ignores OS stuff.
    if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
        if (preg_match('/.'.$mysearch. '$/', $file)) {
            echo '<a href="' .   basename($mydir) . '/' . $file
            . '"  target="_blank">' . $file . "</a><br>";
        }
    }
    closedir($dir);
} else { echo "opendir() returned FALSE!<br>";
    exit;
}
?>