Title: [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Nextgen security?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Nextgen security?

 *  [heinakenka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heinakenka/)
 * (@heinakenka)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-security/)
 * Hi,
 * I am just wondering how is the image security in Nextgen?
 * At least it seems that one can see the picture link and use that directly.
    I
   am using Nextgen together with Gallery2 (same files) and noticed that G2 uses
   htaccess file to protect the files. Unfortunately I was not able to make htaccess
   so that Nextgen could access the files so I had to remove the htaccess for time
   being.
 * So my questions are:
    – is there any means to protect the images in Nextgen? –
   does Nextgen support having images outside “document root” i.e. public_html?

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 *  Thread Starter [heinakenka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heinakenka/)
 * (@heinakenka)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-security/#post-774357)
 * Pity to see that Alex is answering other things put skipping this kind of security
   issues…
 * Might be that I am overreacting put e.g. ability to have images outside doc root
   would be very handy.
 * H.
 *  [Alex Rabe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexrabe/)
 * (@alexrabe)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-security/#post-774463)
 * You must add the tag “nextgen-gallery” otherwise I will not get any note that
   you post a request (I seldom crawl thru the forums)
 * To you request :
    i never study the “image protection” of Gallery2 so far.
 * > So my questions are:
   >  – is there any means to protect the images in Nextgen?–
   > does Nextgen support having images outside “document root” i.e. public_html?
 * No currently it must be inside wp-content, later on I will look up for a more
   flexible version.

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## Tags

 * [gallery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gallery/)
 * [NexGen Gallery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nexgen-gallery/)
 * [nextgen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nextgen/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Alex Rabe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexrabe/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-nextgen-gallery-nextgen-security/#post-774463)
 * Status: not resolved

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