htaccess..

lordgreg

hi...

let's say i have path:
/wallpapers

where are saved wallpapers,.. now, i don't want that my users can access directly to that pictures, like http://www.something.com/wallpapers/paper1.jpg,

if they want to see it, they must check the wallpapers.php file, where i insert the wallpaper file paper1.jpg into it.

how can i rewrite rule for that in htaccess??? please help!!!

rbenfield

Well, I don't know if this is the optimal solution but I would think it should work for what you need.

Move the folder below the root of the site. For example if your folder is currently in:

username/www/html/wallpapers

(html being the root of your site) Move the folder to here:

username/www/wallpapers

and in your scripts reference the images so say:

"../wallpapers/image.jpg"

Hope that helps,
Richard

Anon

No, that won't work because images, as well as any html or php file needs to be within the root of your site.

I think you should look in to the Mod_Rewrite apache module. You could do something like this in your .htaccess file(s):

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^{Your-site.com}
RewriteRule ^/$ /images/you-cant-view-this-image.gif

I acually tested this, and it doesn't work (so dont use this code), but you should be able to get it working if you spend some time on it.

I've only used Mod_Rewrite once before, but it is very useful if you know what you're doing.

rbenfield

You may be right when it comes to image files or html files but I use this method to keep my config files (php files that have my database connection info) below the root of my site and it works fine. I have used it on numerous other sites. I can't say for sure on images or html as I have only used it for php files. but it does work with them and in theory should work with any file.

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Example:

(checks if referring URL is from within your site).

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^{http://your.domain.com/}
RewriteRule /* http://your.domain.com/wallpapers.php [R,L]

Anon

sure, you could include() files from other directories using php, or copy() them to a readable folder, but with images I wouldn't do it if I were you.