[pmwiki-users] Images in another group

[Tegan Dowling]

Would this be more secure than the .htaccess method?  Would it be the same
from the user's point of view?

On 12/7/05, H. Fox <haganfox at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> On 12/7/05, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Thus, if the wiki administrator turns off access to uploads via
> > direct url (e.g., via a .htaccess file or equivalent),
>
> Another method, which isn't equivalent but has the same effect
> (disallowing direct access to uploaded files), would be to move
> uploads outside your web server's document tree.  You can use
>
> $UploadDir = '/some/path/the/server/won't/serve/from/uploads';
>
> PmWiki can run with all script-written files stored outside the web
> document tree, which is pretty impressive.  For a clunky method of
> setting this up, see
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SourceForgeServers
>
> Hagan
>
> > then the only
> > way to access uploaded files will be by using ?action=download on a
> > page, and this will require read permission to the page.
> >
> > Hope this helps...?
> >
> > Pm
>
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