Download od media not working if wordpress not in webroot directory

Hi,
I made a test page with your audio file and it’s working fine for me:
https://pupunzi.open-lab.com/audio-test/

You should check with your web-master why you cant reach the correct path to the file.

Bye,
Matteo

Hi Matteo,

My web-master told me that the problem arises, if the home directory of the domain is not the same as the root directory of the wordpress installation.
In my case the domain karl-westermann.org has the home directory ‘/karl_westermann’ and within this the root directory of the wordpress installation is ‘/karl_westermann/wordpress’.

As a workaround my webmaster modified the plug-in coding of ‘map_downloads.php’ as follows:

<?php
/**
* Download file.
*/

$wpHomeDir = ‘/karl_westermann’;

/* Check if there is the cookie that allow the download */

if(!isset($_COOKIE[“mapdownload”]) || $_COOKIE[“mapdownload”] !== “true”)
die ($_COOKIE[“mapdownload”].’ <b>Something goes wrong, you don\’t have permission to use this page, sorry.</b>’) ;

unset($_COOKIE[‘mapdownload’]);
setcookie(‘mapdownload’, ‘false’, time() – 3600, ‘/’);

$file_name = $_GET[“filename”];
$file_url = $_GET[“fileurl”];
$file_url = str_replace(” “, “%20”, $file_url);

$web_root = $_SERVER[“DOCUMENT_ROOT”];
$web_address = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’];

$pos = strrpos($file_url, $web_address);

if($pos){

if (isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) &&
($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] == ‘on’ || $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] == 1) ||
isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO’]) &&
$_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO’] == ‘https’) {
$protocol = ‘https://&#8217;;
}
else {
$protocol = ‘https://&#8217;;
}

$file_url = str_replace ($protocol. $web_address .’/’, ”, $file_url);
$file_url = $web_root . $wpHomeDir .”/”. $file_url;
$file_url = str_replace(‘//’, ‘/’, $file_url);

//die($protocol . ” — ” .$web_root . ” — ” .$web_address . ” — ” . $file_url );

}

Hello Matteo,

Modifying the coding as a work-around is incommodious when updating the plug-in and not good practise.
As it is good and common hosting practise to separate program files from data files, I suggest you to offer the above modification or an equivalent solution in the settings of your plug-in.

Regards
Karl