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Asked: 2026-05-22T18:03:46+00:00

More specifically, I have an htaccess file that restricts anyone from seeing the directory

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More specifically, I have an htaccess file that restricts anyone from seeing the directory contents. Such that, nobody can see my 1000s of images in http://www.example.com/images by using:

deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1

However, I want to use these images on http://www.example.com such that,
<img src="images/thisimg.jpg" /> works.

I hope I’m in the right direction, but I appreciate any insight/re-direct. This is similar to: How to protect all directory contents, but gain access to php script but I want to link to these images in that directory, and using deny from all does not allow me to do that.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    All you need to keep people from seeing the directory contents is an index.php or .html file in that folder. Any requests for yoursite.com/images will load index.php, which you’ll set to a dummy page.

    index.html could be something like:

    <html><title>Forbidden!</title><body>Nothing to see here...</body></html>

    or a redirect script index.php:

    <?php header('Location: /index.php'); exit(); ?>

    Don’t use .htaccess for blocking directory listings, it blocks access to everything.

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