Starting with version 5.0.0 of Download Monitor, the Other downloads path option from Settings> Advanced> Miscellaneous has been renamed and moved to a different tab: Approved download paths. The main utility of this section is to add extra paths for downloadable files aside from the default ones.
Depending on how your host set up your server or how you set up your WordPress installation, you may need to add another file path for your files if you want to download them from another directory.
By default, due to security issues and restrictions, we only allow downloads from the root folder and the uploads folder, depending on how your WordPress installation is configured. To be able to download files from elsewhere, please specify the path or a higher path.
For the root folder /home/dir/www/wordpress/ , if you want to download files from /home/dir/www/downloads/ directory, for example, you will need to enter the /home/dir/www/downloads/ path in the setting, or if the files are in the www directory, an example of how the path should look would be /home/dir/www/.
The download paths setup works seamlessly across both multisite and single-site installations. The only key difference is that in a multisite, only the Network Admin can access and view the Download Paths tab.
This makes managing downloads even easier for multisite networks without the need for any extra setup.
