Am I the only one who is upset over Blide service?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (.+)\files
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ files.php?fromDir=$1 [QSA] #QSA = append ?get=parameters&and=others
    #or: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ files.php?fromDir=$1 [L] #end here and ignore further rewrite rules 
</IfModule>

$requestedFilePath = rawurldecode( isset($_GET["fromDir"]) ?  $_GET["fromDir"] : "" );
//remove "files/" from param - they are fake
$requestedFilePath = str_replace('files/', '', $requestedFilePath);
//... your other file checks to avoid /../../etc/passwd and other things
// -> easiest is to have only level1 subdirectories (not files/myA/myB/myC/file.zip)
//so you can do:
$requestedFilePath = explode("/", $requestedFilePath);
//subdir given?
if(count($requestedFilePath)>0) {
  //validate directory
  $validExtraChars = array('-', '_'); 
  if(!ctype_alnum(str_replace($validExtraChars, '', $requestedFilePath[0]))) { 
    die('illegal characters found in file request'); 
  }
  //assign file
  $requestedFile = $requestedFilePath[1];
  $requestedFilePath = $requestedFilePath[0];
}else{
  //assign file
  $requestedFile = $requestedFilePath[0];
  $requestedFilePath = '';
}

//check filename for invalid characters
if(!preg_match('/^(?:[a-z0-9_-]|\.(?!\.))+$/iD', $requestedFile)) {
   die('illegal characters found in file request'); 
}

//proceed with your file
//add "/" to path if one is given
$requestedFilePath = ($requestedFilePath<>""?$requestedFilePath."/":"");

//script variables
$myHomeDir = "/users/ziggy/htdocs/_mysecretfilesdir" //absolute path

//respond if file not existing
if(!file_exists($myHomeDir."/".$requestedFilePath.$requestedFile))
  die("file not found.");

//process your file here
//eg. redirect to the processed file
//or copy it ( copy(old,new) )