[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Image Gallery Security Request

  • ChuckRock

    (@chuckrock)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    I am running Version 1.7.2 and it works great.

    Is there going to be any security add for the galleries?

    I would not think it would be that hard to add a image viewer that could access images in a directory with permissions of 700 set to it. This way the images could not be accessed directly without going through wordpress.

    Thanks
    Chuck

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  • Thread Starter ChuckRock

    (@chuckrock)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    Hmm, am I the only one that has this issue?

    I have almost 30,000 images hosted through NextGEN and it works great, but I want to stop people from linking directly to images. I could do this if I could set directory access rights to 700, but if I do this images are not displayed. Thumbnails are because they are displayed through a NextGEN script that run as owner of the directory, but displaying a full size image it is not using a script to access the directory. It is just using a URL directly to the image.

    Is there anyway to fix this?

    I don’t like doing a search on google finding and image that show that it’s hosted on my server, to find out when you click on it that some other site show up that is linking to my images. It also makes it hard to make people register to view content, when 90+% of the 150,000 page views a month are from other site displaying images hosted on my server. I would like to fix this issue.

    Thanks

    Alex Rabe

    (@alexrabe)

    13 years, 3 months ago

    You should better solve this via htaccess. Example : http://www.besthostratings.com/articles/prevent-hot-linking.html

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