Displaying image outside of web root not working , why?

Question

I just learned about "how to add image outside of web root". I have done everything as mentioned. But the image is not displaying. Here's the code in the file called get_image.php. and the Directory structure:

home.php

`...
<body>
   <img src="/get_image.php?image=myimg.jpg" width="100" height="100"/>
</body
...`

I have checked is_readable() and file_exists() seems ok.

app
  |_upload_dir
      |_myimg.jpg
      |_ myimg2.png
Public_html
  |_asset_dir
  |_get_image.php
  |_ home.php

get_image.php

<?php
  $mime_type = mime_content_type("../app/upload_dir/{$_GET['image']}");
  header('Content-Type: '.$mime_type);

  readfile("../app/upload_dir/{$_GET['image']}");
?>

So why the image is not displaying??

show error log or turn on error display https://stackoverflow.com/tags/php/info — Pinke Helga, Feb 17 '19 at 18:04
And the images in `upload_dir` are permanent? That's not the temp dir for current uploads? — Pinke Helga, Feb 17 '19 at 18:08
What is `var_dump(mime_content_type("../app/upload_dir/{$_GET['image']}"));` without setting headers and via direct request from address bar? Is this your own (local) server or a webhost? — Pinke Helga, Feb 17 '19 at 18:14
Just observing the broken image does not suffice as research. Where's the `wget -S` and hexdump or `file -k -l` probe debugging? — mario, Feb 17 '19 at 18:43

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 17 '19 at 18:47

-1

Problem solved :) . Well... I forgot to include a file that had the IMAGE_PATH constant which was holding the path to the upload_dir.

answered Feb 17 '19 at 18:47

Bipul Roy

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