Trying to access xml and images files outside of webroot?

Hello,

I’ve written a content management system that writes(creates) xml files and uploads images to a directory outside of the webroot. I need to load these xml files into a flash application that resides within the webroot. The xml files contain tags that point to images that are used by the flash application.

Having tested this successfully locally, I am using this directory structure:

/cms
[INDENT]/images
/xml
[/INDENT]/webroot
[INDENT]flashapp.swf

[/INDENT]But I can’t get this to work on a live server. Is there some restriction on .swf files from accessing files and directories outside of the webroot?

Thanks so much!