More specifically, I have an htaccess file that restricts anyone from seeing the directory contents. Such that, nobody can see my 1000s of images in www.example.com/images by using:
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1
However, I want to use these images on www.example.com such that,
<img src="images/thisimg.jpg" />
works.
I hope I'm in the right direction, but I appreciate any insight/re-direct. This is similar to: How to protect all directory contents, but gain access to php script but I want to link to these images in that directory, and using deny from all
does not allow me to do that.
Thanks in advance for your help.
If it were me I'd just make sure that the referrer is www.example.com, that's kinda one of it's main uses.
All you need to keep people from seeing the directory contents is an index.php or .html file in that folder. Any requests for yoursite.com/images will load index.php, which you'll set to a dummy page.
index.html could be something like:
or a redirect script index.php:
Don't use .htaccess for blocking directory listings, it blocks access to everything.
in that folder which you want to show access forbidden create a file with name index.php and paste this code
in .htaccess
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options
Use something like this in .htaccess file:
This will allow your pages to load the documents and images you want while stoping everyone elses pages from doing it. I use this on all my sites and it works great.