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1. skromta
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm rather new to wordpress but is considering a second installation which would be a bit different than a standard blog. The main purpose of the site would a photo site, I want to protect the content of some of the pages I plan to add (family stuff). I've tried to figure out a solution using wordpress only but I can't figure out a way to protect a page and it's content (the pictures).

   So instead I'm considering to use a modified approach to what I'm currently using, using apaches permissions to restrict access to folders, and then link to these static non-wp files from within wordpress.

   My question is, are there any problems with having non-wordpress folders in a wordpress installation? Are there going to be any problems using links like http://www.example.com/family/ to refer to these non-wp folders when http://www.example.com should point to wordpress installation? What is the best way to organize the files, should I put the wordpress files in a sub-directory?

   I would appriciate some advise.

   And yes, I know about gallery software like Gallery and that they can be integrated with wordpress, I'm considering to use them but for what I have in mind it wouldn't work.

2. miromiro
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Have you thought about applying a password to the relevant pages? That way only your family (who would have the password) could view those pages + the photos on them...

3. peiqinglong
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   WordPress *normally* does not conflict with any existing actual sub folders/directories. I do this all the time. Having WordPress in the root is the best course of action and you can set a password as miromiro suggested.

4. skromta
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Please correct me if I'm wrong but the password protections is as I understand it one password per page/post not one password per user? (What I should have mentioned is that I really have three groups: public, friends, family where family can see everything, friends a bit less and public has the least access)

   And from my experimentation it looks like that even if I password protect the page/post the actual file is still available for download (me paranoid? Naah :) ).

   But I think the simplest solution for me is to create three folders and use .htaccess files to password protect the pages, this would solve the problems for me ... not that I know that there are no problems doing this.

   Thanks for the answer

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