toozerosickz

I want to be able to hide my site's folders i.e. www.mysite.com/uploads . I still want to be able to link files though but don't want people seeing where they come from and looking at other files. How would I do this?

DewKnight

You could always just put a blank index.html file in the folder... but they can still view it in other methods.. I think there's also a way to disable a directory from displaying contents with the .htaccess file.. not sure exactly what.. I'll do a quick search for it, but maybe somebody else knows for sure

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DewKnight

here it is, you just put a .htaccess file in that directory, and include the line:

Options -Indexes

from here: http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_dir.html

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David

You could put a blank index page in so they wouldn't just see the file tree...or turn Indexes off.

I'm not sure of an easy solution for linking to files in the upload area and not letting the user see the path in one way or another.

edit: I need to just throw my computer away.

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H

Depends how far you want to go. If you don't want the link to have the storage folder eg "uploads", you could do a PHP script or mod_rewrite. If you just want to make the folder non-browsable, turn off indexing for the folder. I'm pretty sure CPanel can do it, or a quick google search on .htaccess.

toozerosickz

Thank you, I just turned off the indexes. Exactly what I wanted.