cakephp disable routing for specific URLs

I have a CakePHP 1.3.10 app which I'm trying to make it do the following:

I want to embed a mp3 file in some views, using Google's reader flash audio player. If I put the mp3 file in the webroot directory of my app, there's no problem. However, I would like to have those files in a directory called AUDIO at the same level of my app directory. Like:

[public_html]
    [app]
    [cake]
    [AUDIO]
    ...

The problem is that if I put my mp3 files there, when I link to them from my view, Cake looks for the controller audio, which doesn't exist, instead of just linking my file. I believe this has something to do with routing, so I was wondering if I can disable automatic routing for a specific folder (**audio in this case).

I want to do this in this way because in the future I might have to access those mp3 from other websites, so I don't want to put them deep into cake's directory system.

Thanks so mu开发者_如何学编程ch in advance for any tips!

Files that should be directly served by the web server without going through Cake should be put in the /app/webroot directory. You can create such a /webroot directory in plugins as well (see here), which technically will use routing, but behaves the same as the general webroot directory.

If you place them anywhere else you're going against Cake conventions, which I wouldn't recommend. Not because it's not possible, you're just making your life harder than it needs to be. You can edit the /app/webroot/.htaccess file to rewrite certain URLs to wherever you stored your files or use Media Views (as pointed out by @Ivo) if you really want to do this.

CakePHP won't be able to automatically find files in folders that it doesn't know about.

I'd suggest using Media Views to serve files from a custom directory.

If you want them to be freely downloadable, you can do this using MediaView also, or put them in a custom folder inside webroot. You'll need to include that folder in paths etc, though.