Title: [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Image Gallery Security Request
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Image Gallery Security Request

 *  [ChuckRock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckrock/)
 * (@chuckrock)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-security-request/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckrock/)
 * (@chuckrock)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-security-request/#post-1835061)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexrabe/)
 * (@alexrabe)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-security-request/#post-1835065)
 * You should better solve this via htaccess. Example : [http://www.besthostratings.com/articles/prevent-hot-linking.html](http://www.besthostratings.com/articles/prevent-hot-linking.html)

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 * Last reply from: [Alex Rabe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexrabe/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-gallery-security-request/#post-1835065)
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