[wellylug] Use of old links by site visitors

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Tue Jan 9 17:34:31 NZDT 2007


John Durham wrote:
 >
> After a lot of setting up, and some basic changes, I have been checking 
> visitor statistics for my site. Some of them appear to be trying to view 
> images that used to be in the /images directory (now in the /imgs 
> directory). Without bothering with why they would go for the images 
> directly, I'm curious to know if there is a setting for apache that will 
> divert such attempts to the correct place so that old links might still 
> work? PS: Please don't suggest I create the /images directory again so 
> people can swipe pictures!
 >
John, what makes you think that people can't swipe your pictures? :

http://modecideas.com/imgs/

You should at least turn directory listings off!

See this:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#directory

You need to turn indexes OFF for the directories that you want to hide. 
This will not stop people 'swiping' your pictures by right clicking and 
save as on *any* image on your site.

Basically, you set the Directory Options for the whole site by:

<Directory />
AllowOverride None
...other options...

</Directory>

The "/" in the tag says "This applies to the Docroot of the site".

Then follow this with

<Directory /imgs>     <- for example
...options for the /imgs directory....
</Directory>

Cheers,

Cliff




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