Question

is there a way to disable direct access to some directory files

Like I have images in the image directory of my website, I would surely want to load the images on the site itself, but I don’t want to let people write for example

http://mydomain.com/images/zzz.png 

and see the image.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This by no means is fool-proof. It won’t allow someone to type in the url of an image, but you can still, in FireFox for example, right-click and “View Image” and it will show it.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$
RewriteRule \.(jpg|gif|png)$ - [F]

Pretty basic, I think with a little more work, it would be possible to completely exclude.

Hope it helps….