limited access to files

[nighthawk]

I'm building a website which will have huge collection of certain pictures . Only registered users will be able to load that pictures in their browser via php script. The main problem is that I need to prevent users from accessin those images by typing something like this: www.mysite.com/images/image1.jpg into their browser.

Can I do this with htaccess somehow, maybe enable only my php scripts to have access to that folders?

[rse]

Hi,

In your image folder you could put a .htaccess file in there with some like like:

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Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1


This should allow your scripts to access the images but should disallow anyone linking directly to them.

I haven't tested this.

You can also replace the direct linked image with a small image file saying "no hotlinking" etc by putting the following in a .htaccess:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]

RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ [F] //To simply block access

//OR

RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.mydomain.com/angryman.gif [R,L] // To send a different image in its place! 

I hope this helps.

[nighthawk]

Thanks a lot.