Serving images from outisde of document root

Question

Is it possible?

Let's say my directory structure looks like this:

/data
    /data/images
/public

The document root is in the "public" directory. This won't work, of course:

<img src="/../data/images/1.png" alt="" />

But maybe it's possible to enable serving images from directory above document root somehow? I would like to know.

Answer 1

The most common way is an Alias:

Alias /data/ /wherever/your/data/are/