Protecting my Images Folder

[Guest]

Basically, I would like to protect my Images folder, so that whoever tries to access it, cannot view any of my images, but are faced with a "Forbidden" message.

 

Now this is what I'm faced with:

 

When I set the permission of root.php to 644, http://**/images will show error. But when I click on any image in the home page it will work fine.

 

Warning: main(images) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/****/public_html/root.php on line 158

 

root.php line 158

require(basename($osc_parse['path']));

 

When I set the permission of root.php to 777, http://*/images'>http://*/images will show "Forbidden" error. But when I click on any image in the home page it will not work.

 

Since I do not want to allow direct access to http://*/images'>http://*/images I can set permission of root.php to 644 and neglect the error message above, while accessing http://*/images'>http://*/images.

 

Is there perhaps another way for me to do this, bearing in mind that my primary objective is to make http://*/image inaccessible to outsiders.

 

Elroy

[germ]

Several methods of keeping folders from being accessed directly are discussed at the end of this thread:

 

Click Me

 

They don't produce an error message, but they keep people out.

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