Help Me Protect My Image Folder Plz

[Ms_Lamborghini]

Greetings once again.

Just need help in protecting my image folder.
How do I go about doing that, in other words, anybody can now go to my server and view all my images in my image folder. I want that to be un-accessible to the general public.
They can easily get my image path by right clicking on it and BAM!

Is there a way from preventing surfers from going into my image folder?

Thank You!
MS L

[jason]

In an .htaccess file in the images directory add

Options -Indexes

That will trigger a 403 (forbidden) error if someone tries to browse that path without a specific filename.

You can also put an empty index.html file in the directory and get a similar effect.

--Jason

[Robertjp]

Put a .htaccess file in your image folder and place below line in it to disable indexing for that folder , this way no one can view the images in your folder through browser :

Options -Indexes

Edit : Jason was quick

[Ms_Lamborghini]

EXCELLENT!!
Both are great suggestions. I'm on it right now

THANKS to both of you,
Love this place!!

MS L

[Ron]

In an .htaccess file in the images directory add

Options -Indexes

That will trigger a 403 (forbidden) error if someone tries to browse that path without a specific filename.

You can also put an empty index.html file in the directory and get a similar effect.

--Jason Ron

[Daniel_DBS]

Hmmm Ron... NO COMMENT

[Connie]

I not sure Options -Indexes will accomplish what you want. If someone looks at your spruce code they will find the exact path to the image they want to steal or link to. With the exact pat to a particular image they could steal or hot link to the image.

To cover all bases I would suggest adding this to your .htaccess file too.

####prevents hotlinking
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://secure.domain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?69.xx.181.xxx(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?images.ask.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?images.google.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?images.google.ca.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?domain.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?69.73.187.209(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?images.search.yahoo.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|bmp|tif|zip)$ - [F,NC]

The above rule will allow some site to copy (or link to) images, and for those not listed they will get a 403 error page.

Frankly your question was a little vague IMO. I think you need to do both.

[Attithehun]

PHP Folder Protection

Create a index.php file put into the image or whatever folder you want to protect.

It will redirect the surfer to your main page.

Example:
<? header("Location: http://www.yoursite.com"); ?>

Hope it's helps.