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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: #000000">Thank you very much Greg!</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: #000000">My customer believes with a
download manager you could stil view the pictures. So someone told him to create
his image dir above the web dir. But I will try your index.php. Maybe it will be
enough secure for his website. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: #000000">Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: #000000">Lars.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 8pt Tahoma">[BlueOnyx:01753] Re: protecting directory
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<DIV style="FONT: 8pt Tahoma"><A href="mailto:greg@limo.net">Greg
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:51 AM, <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:blueonyx@larsi.de">blueonyx@larsi.de</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote><BR>Hello list,<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Could someone tell me, how to tell apache to use
this directory for the images?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Lars.<BR><BR>i have used
for years a simple index.php file. You can add additional ../ (Period Period
Slash) for the location depending on what level of the directory tree your
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<DIV>As it is shown <A
href="http://www.domain.com/images">http://www.domain.com/images</A>
will re-direct the browser to <A
href="http://www.domain.com/">http://www.domain.com</A> (Location ../ is up
one level) </DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>Will not protect a direct link to the image but will not allow a
directory listing. </DIV>
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<DIV>index.php</DIV>
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<DIV><?php</DIV>
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<DIV>/**</DIV>
<DIV> * index.php</DIV>
<DIV> *</DIV>
<DIV> * Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Limo.Net Internet Services</DIV>
<DIV> *</DIV>
<DIV> * This file simply takes any attempt to view source/image files and
sends those</DIV>
<DIV> * people to the home page.</DIV>
<DIV> *</DIV>
<DIV> */</DIV>
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<DIV>header("Location:../");</DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>/* pretty impressive huh? */</DIV>
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