Serving a different filename than the actual file

[jimoblak]

I may be off but I believe there was a PHP function that would take a file on your server and dish it out as another filename. Am I too off? What is this function (or what method could be used to do this on Apache/Linux?)

Example:
a file on the server as
'user/htdocs/pdf/01.pdf'

would be called/served as
'

http://www.mydomain.com/pdf/Monkey_Catalog.pdf'

'01.pdf' is changed to 'Monkey_Catalog.pdf'


I'm looking to convert machine-authored filenames of machine-authored PDFs to something readable by the end user when they save/download.

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[sleipnir214]

You could do it using mod_rewrite and mod_proxy on Apache, and using a PHP script that examines $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to see what file was requested.

On my test system, my web site is configured with:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/phony_files(.*) /phony_script.php

phony_script.php reads:

<?php
$file_map = array
(
	'foo.pdf' => '123.pdf',
	'bar.pdf' => '456.pdf',
	'baz.pdf' => '789.pdf'
);

$requested_filename = preg_replace ('/\/phony_files\//', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

if (isset($file_map[$requested_filename]))
{
	print '/real_directory/' .$file_map[$requested_filename];
}
else
{
	header ('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');
}
?>

Of course, your script will probably want to actually stream the file out with the appropriate "Content-Type" and "Content-disposition" headers, and will probably have a machine-readable to human-readable filename conversion that's more significant than mine.

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[sleipnir214]

Sorry, I misspoke. You won't need mod_proxy, as you're not proxying the request internally, just redirecting the request to the script. In fact, if you use mod_proxy, Apache will rewrite $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] to the name of your script and the requested filenames will be lost.

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