How to protect that images can be loaded only from server's PHP application?

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hello,

working on development of php application that can display images.

images are stored on server.

how can i protect images, so they can not be accessed outside my php application?

is that possible to do with .htaccess?

thank you in advance!

2

Correct!

However, the standard question deals with “piracy” and there is a pirate protection “script” in mod_rewrite just for that in the sticky threads and linked in my signature.

Regards,

DK

3

There are two options:

  1. Put the images in a directory below the DOCUMENT_ROOT
  2. Put the images in a directory in the DOCUMENT_ROOT and put an .htaccess file in that directory with the following:

deny from all

With both options you need to serve the images using a php file because browsers won’t be able to access the directly – which is what you want :slight_smile: