[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by butty

hello. i currently have my ldm in my public_html/media folder.

i have found out that it is possible for people to find out that the contents are there and download the files when i dont have this option available under the settings

what i want to know is can i move the media folder below the public_html folder and will it still work. would this then stop people being able to download the files andhow would i go about moving it?

many thanks for your time

yes, this is explained in the online wiki, see http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...nd_Server_Load

You use the local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix settings on the ldm admin page. Set local_file_root *on* so that LDM refers to files in terms of the server root directory rather than the website root directory, and set local_file_root_prefix to the name of the base directory you want to use - ** it's important that you do this, otherwise you are potentially opening up your whole server directory structure to LDM users **

If you move your current files cleverly into the same directory relative to ..local_file_root_prefix/, everything will continue to work unchanged, but be totally hidden from people who try to leech the files. If you have problems, you can always do a mass edit of the entries via the admin/categories page.

It's a good idea to take a backup...