preventing bots from accessing a directory.

[subhomoy]

Hello every1,

 

I'm trying to create a magazine wesite and I dont want anybody to access my images folder which is located in the root directory.

 

I want some thing like this...

 

I want to call the images in my website using <img> tag but I dont want any1 to access the directory directly.

 

It should also protect from software bots also like (HTTrack or website Copier)

 

It should show "Access forbidden".

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you...

 

 

[QuickOldCar]

If an image is shown on a page it can be accessed, that's the way the net works

the code below will at least stop them from using your bandwidth, direct visits

 

using htaccess rules, hotlink protection

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]

[subhomoy]

Thanks for the reply @ QuickOldCar

 

But i'm asking is there anything to protect direct access to the image directory...

 

I dont want any1 to go directly and view all all the images

 

www.yourdomain.com/images..

 

Rather it should show "ACCESS FORBIDDEN"

[QuickOldCar]

drop an empty index file in there to prevent browsing it