I set directories full of images to not be visible to the public but is there a way that I can see the directory?

Cause I have image hosting on my site and i dont want to see all the images uploaded so i made it so they cant see the images directory that the images are uploaded to. But if i want to see the images i cant either. So is there a way to make the directory only visible to me?

What kind of image hosting do you have? And how did you make it so that users can't see the directory?

- Steve

There may be some .htaccess trick to achieve this, but that's outside of what I know personally. However, you could get a script that would list the directory's contents, and you could just name the file something that you only know about. Search for "list directory files script" or something like that in a search engine.

Here's something that I use:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

@files = <*>; 
foreach $file (@files) {

print "<a href='$file'>". "$file" . "</a><br>\n";

}

to print out a list of the file names in an image directory. You can alter the print command to display thumbnails if you would like -- but to use this you have to be able to run CGI scripts outside of the CGI bin.

I'm not sure if this is something that will work for you, but if it does -- let me know if you need any minor adjustments or help on how to implement it.

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