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Protect all files in a directory from direct access?
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:36 pm
by tomfra
Is it possible to allow only the "home" domain name to access files in a given directory? In other words, I do not want other people, spiders, etc. to be able to access images and other files that should be used by the web pages on my domain only.
Thanks!
Tomas
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:04 pm
by tomfra
OK, I've found a way using RewriteRule, but is it possible to disallow accessing specific file name(s) instead of just the file type?
Tomas
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:05 pm
by magicrobotmonkey
if you are running apache, look at .htaccess
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:12 pm
by tomfra
Yes, I do know that this can be done via .htaccess and I found a way how to protect any file type I specify, but what about a specific file? I am sure it's mentioned somewhere at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html but I couldn't find it there.
Tomas
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:22 pm
by timvw
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:59 pm
by tomfra
It doesn't seem to solve my, albeit specific, problem. I'll try it via PHP...
Thanks for the ideas!
Tomas
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:47 pm
by timvw
you probably have configured your webserver wrong... Because following works fine..
Code: Select all
<Directory "C:/private">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from .home
</Directory>