[support] Using drupal to setup file download area

[Bill Fitzgerald]

This might be a starting point:

http://drupal.org/project/filebrowser

I don't know if this supports files outside the Document Root, though.

Cheers,

Bill

On 6/30/10 11:32 AM, Matt Funk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i was wondering whether it is possible to setup a downloading area
> within drupal where the files do NOT go through the drupal uploading process
> (the reason being is that they are too big)
>
> The scenario is that i have a folder on the server to which i copy the
> files to be downloaded. However, this folder is NOT accessible via the URL.
> So does anyone know of some sort of module (i don't think the drupal
> core does it) which parses a folder (which, again, resides outside the
> DocumentRoot)
> and is able to expose the files contained therein?
>
> thanks
> matt
>