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Stopping External Access to our Resources folder
We have pirates taking images out of our resources folder.
Will it cause any problem if I put a blank index.php file in this folder to stop direct access to it
We have pirates taking images out of our resources folder.
Will it cause any problem if I put a blank index.php file in this folder to stop direct access to it
No, or you could turn off directory indexes
https://linuxconfig.org/turn-off-directory-browsing-on-apache
Thanks for the advice
I don't know that our host would permit us to fiddle with apache.
I'll go the index.php route
It can usually be done in your
.htaccessfile. Either method is fine.Good to know. I certainly use our htaccess file for lots of stuff
Putting a blank index.php file did not do the trick. It stops people from browsing the folder, but still allows them to get in if they know the name of a file inside the folder, they can still download that file, which is what I want to stop
I tried putting an htaccess file in with
deny from all
but that stops our pages from getting to the images. I thought deny from all stopped external access but allowed pho access, but it seems I am wrong on that.
Do you have a suggestion for htaccess? Thanks
No, if a file is viewable on the web then it can be downloaded, because that is what happens when a browser displays an image. It downloads it.