Ahhhh..
Very nice. I did not think of that.
But lets say its a whole bunch of images and multiple people may be  
accessing them.
Is it safe to have them accessing a directory outside the public_html  
directory?
Thanks,

Karl

On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:

> On 3 February 2010 16:07, Karl DeSaulniers <karl@designdrumm.com>  
> wrote:
>> Thank you all for your numerous responses.
>>
>> I hear you loud and clear. I was wanting to see if it would be  
>> less of a
>> burden on the server and secure my images better to put the images  
>> inside a
>> database, but
>> as you all have almost uniformly stated, this would not be the best
>> situation.
>> I currently have all my images referenced by url in my database  
>> and stored
>> in a folder/s and I think I will keep it that way...
>>
>> Thanks for your 2 cents,
>>
>> :)
>>
>> Karl
>>
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>
> If you put the images OUTSIDE of the webroot/docroot/public_html
> folder (whatever you have), then a user cannot directly navigate to
> the file.
>
> e.g.
> /home/sites/your_site/public_html/images/image1.jpg
>
> http://www.yoursite.com/images/image1.jpg would probably work.
>
> But ...
>
> /home/sites/your_site/public_html/getImage.php
> /home/sites/your_site/hidden_images/image1.jpg
>
> Now, there is no way I can load image1.jpg from my browser. I have to
> use getImage.php, which I assume would require me to login or
> authenticate myself in some way.
>
>
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