[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

I am kind of confused on this. After the install and going to set the local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix. What exactly am i going to put in there.....? I attached an image of the local and icon's not being enabled......I set a path for the icons and they will not appear with ldm. If i go to the icon's through my server and click on the link inside the ldm icons file, i am directed to the icon, but using the same addy inside the ldm setting's page, it keep's saying that it can't find the file......

local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix are, if you like, specialised features for people who are running the web site on a server that is fully under their own control. They give you the possibility to increase security, but only if you really understand what you are doing and only if you do have full control of your server. If you don't, leave the settings alone.

Basically, these are used to control how LDM locates the downloadable files which it manages and which are stored on the server itself. LDM by default does a pretty good job of hiding the location of file downloads. However, if you really want to make sure that no-one can get at your files except through LDM, then you use these parameters to tell the program whereabouts on the web server the files are to be placed. All 'lookups' are translated to this part of the file system.

Concerning the icons setting, if you upload the icons into subdirectory ldm_icons of your *forums* directory, then set file_icons_dir to ldm_icons.