how to show image that are stored above Document_Root

Question

I set the src attribute of img the way below but was not working :

src="/../files/filenamee"

the image is not shown.

How to do it correctly?

Answer 1

You won't be able to reference images above DocumentRoot by any means. The URLs are interpreted by the Web browser, so it'll just request /files/filename. You'd need either to write a script which reads files from the desired directory and writes them to the user (a bad idea, because these scripts almost always open up an inadvertent security hole) or create a symbolic link to the directory from within your document root.