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Accessing files from a location thru a WEB application.

In line with not having too much experience with WEB development. I have a challenge, which I hope is not for you experts. I need to allow users to access files from a web applications, however those files are not stored within site folder on the web server. Can anyone explain how to reference those attachments.

I used the href tag, but it seems to always try to access files whose path is relative to the root folder of the site.

Thank you.
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BMaadarani

8/22/2022 - Mon
bbao

> those files are not stored within site folder on the web server.

where are the files stored?
Darren Reeder

Follow this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-4o-ZPJ48

You want to mount the Folder which you are trying to access inside of the server Folder (the root of the server folder).

I think this should work!
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A great simple suggestion that help me further with my project.
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