htaccess&apache, need to protect pictures from being shown - URL

[martinko86]

Hi.

I have a tricky problem. I have a directory (say /photos/), where is few images (jpeg). I need to BLOCK users from being able to see images while entering

http://mysite/photos/filename.

But, i have a script called showphoto.php?photoid=filename. When user enters this, he should be able to see desired photo. The script showphoto generates html img src code. Thank You very much.

Cheers,
Martin.

 

[RhythmAce]

You can use this directive either in an .htaccess file or in the directory container in httpd.conf:

Order allow, deny
Allow from [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mydomain.com/myscript.php[/URL]

This will deny access to all by default but allow from this page only.