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Website Question // General Discussionalphabit phalphaMar 18, 2003, 1:44am
Hey:)
How do I keep folks from seeing everything inside my main folder on my website? I mean if I have www.one.com/pictures/love.html is there anyway that a person couldn't back up and see the pictures directory? I know there's something I can do but not sure what:( Thanks in advance:) Hugggs:) Bit:) syntaxMar 18, 2003, 2:27am
Put a blank index.html file in that directory.
-- - Syntax - http://www.swcity.net http://forum.swcity.net [View Quote] jermeMar 24, 2003, 1:45am
The blank index.html file is probably the simplest solution.. however you
have a few other obvious (and not so obvious options) First you could rename "love.html" to "index.html" (unless you have some really good reason for keeping it named "love.html") Second, you could change the name of the file that the web server looks for as an index. This relies on the fact that you are using the Apache web server. To do this create a file named ".htaccess" (this file name is a standard name, although your administrator could can change it). Inside the file type the following on the first line: DirectoryIndex love.html love.htm index.html index.htm You could also turn off the automatic directory listings all together. To do this create the ".htaccess" file and include the following. (this also relies on your web server being the Apache server) Options -Indexes The .htaccess files are really the 'proper' way to go as creating a blank index.html document may be simpler, but can leave visitors confused when all they find is a blank page. If you must use the blank document method, at least put this HTML tag in the <head>...</head> section of the page. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;URL=love.html"> This will cause the browser to jump to your "love.html" page automatically after 2 seconds. So, you can put something like "Redirecting, please wait..." on the blank index.html document and the user will be directed to the correct page automatically. Hope I've helped you out, and not confused you.... Regards, Jeremy -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeremy Booker - Owner / Webmaster JTech Web Systems www.JTechWebSystems.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Mathew 5:34 [View Quote] wizard myrddinMar 24, 2003, 12:35pm
Easyest way if you running unix based server is to cmod the folder and keep
the noisey parkers out of it. [View Quote] kahMar 24, 2003, 2:56pm
"wizard myrddin" <wizard at rdescape.com> wrote in
news:3e7f17ba$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com: > Easyest way if you running unix based server is to cmod the folder and > keep the noisey parkers out of it. Nope. We're talking about images used on a webserver here, it won't help changing the mode. KAH jermeMar 25, 2003, 12:33am
You can't protect them on the client side without writing a custom
application to view them that does not allow saving and dows not allow screen captures. (a formitable task, not worth the benifits...) So, you can settle for the second best way of protecting images... use the Apache rewrite engine. For more on Apache, .htaccess, and the rewrite engine: http://httpd.apache.org/ Regards, Jeremy -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeremy Booker - Owner / Webmaster JTech Web Systems www.JTechWebSystems.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Mathew 5:34 [View Quote] bowenMar 25, 2003, 1:04am
alphabit phalphaMar 25, 2003, 12:57pm
Thanks everyone for the answers to my question:)
I wasn't worried about people getting objects etc. I was more concerned about when I give a url out to a picture that some folks might "back up" on the url and see pics of people that don't want others (than myself) to see them. I'll just put them elsewhere:) Hugggs:) Bit:) [View Quote] kahMar 25, 2003, 2:38pm
"jerme" <JerMe at nc.rr.com> wrote in
news:3e7fc014$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com: > You can't protect them on the client side without writing a custom > application to view them that does not allow saving and dows not allow > screen captures. (a formitable task, not worth the benifits...) You could still get it from memory. KAH |
