# How to access plugin paths via URL?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-access-plugin-paths-via-url/107525 "2019-01-25T15:05:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pilvinen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pilvinen/32/129960_2.png) [@Pilvinen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pilvinen)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-access-plugin-paths-via-url/107525/3 "2019-01-25T16:04:01Z")

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> [@Falco](#):
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> will be in the URL at
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> `https://discourse.example.com/plugins/plugin-name/folder/a.txt`

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/6/0684b9232d0b6fa8709eeddbd3f7cfeba7df60ce.png)

I can access it if I link it here `ln -s /var/www/discourse/plugins/distodis/`

But then you can download all the PHP files with secrets. They don’t get executed and the webhook is returning 405 when I ping it.

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