image right for direct access via browser and via download.php

[mikywillis]

hello,

I have a problem, maybe a basic one, but a problem..

My WebSite sell images.

I don't want anonymous user to be able to access (and save) my images with an URL like http://mywebsite/images/myImage.gif

If users want to download an image, they must have an account, and must have paid for this image.

Then users can download it with an URL like http://mywebsite/download.php?id=12345
then my script check if this user has paid, read the file and create the good content-type with a "force-download" header.

the question is how I have to set the right of myImage.gif (740, 440?) and which linux user must be the owner of the file (nobody, apache ?)

Thanks very much

Miky