[BlueOnyx:01756] Re: protecting directory

[blueonyx at larsi.de]

Hi Chris,

.htaccess is the thing I tried the last two days, but I believe I'm too stupid for it.

My .htaccess file is nearly the same as in your example. But the picture is shown when I use a website link and also with a direct link. So .htaccess seems to change nothing. I activated the AllowOverride File Info in the management console, because I read this would be enough for using mod_rewrite.

Do you have an idea, what I make wrong?

Thanks,
Lars.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [BlueOnyx:01754] Re: protecting directory (16-Jul-2009 22:49)
From:    Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts at virtbiz.com>
To:      blueonyx at blueonyx.it

> 
> blueonyx at larsi.de wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > a customer of us wants to secure his images directory. So he planned to put 
> > his images dir besides the web dir, so no one could link directly to the 
> > images.
> > 
> > Unfortunatly I have no idea, how to do this. His website uses php, but 
> > there is no chance to use sessions. So putting the images dir above the web 
> > dir should be the easiest solution for him.
> > 
> > Could someone tell me, how to tell apache to use this directory for the 
> > images?
> 
> Hi Lars,
> I think you are wanting to prevent hotlinking?   You can commonly do 
> that with .htaccess.
> 
> Try this:
> http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess10.shtml
> 
> HTH,
> 
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