svgmx5 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 So i have a membership website going on and i'm allowing all users to to log in and upload videos or images or w.e. However i don't want other people to view those same images and be able to download them without having an account or login in first. So basically i want to know how i can secure a directory that will contain the files so only the people who are logged in or members can access them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 The best method is to store them outside of your server's document root directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svgmx5 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 what do you mean by that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Exactly what I said. Store the images outside of your servers web root. Sorry, but I'm not sure how else to explain it. Your servers web root might be something like..... /var/www/<yourusername>/htdocs If you then store files within /var/www/<yourusername> they will be completely unreachable from the net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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