.htaccess and PHP

Jess1

I have protected some of my website directories using .htaccess and .htpasswd files. This means that any users trying to access my protected directories need to enter a username and password.

My question is:

It seems that if I have a serverside PHP script (which is stored in the none protected area of my website) it is not able to access the protected directories. (E.g. link to a .jpg) Is it possible to have a directory protected with .htaccess which still allows serverside scripts to access it?

Many Thanks

Jess1

MarkR

Your PHP code should be able to access protected directories ITSELF, but the web browser will not.

When you produce an inline image element, it's the web browser which fetches the image, not the php.

Therefore, normal restrictions apply.

Things which read the file server side, such as include() require() etc, and file IO such as fopen(), will be unaffected by .htaccess

Mark

Jess1

Thank you MarkR.

That makes sense.

🙂