How to Stop the Image URL in apache

Question

While clicking on the image it opens into the browser. I dont want to allow client to open the image in browser as separate url. I have blocked the /image/ directory from access/listing , but the image is opening.

How to stop that in apache. Please help me.

Comments

Check the following link
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18524511/how-can-i-block-direct-access-to-images-in-a-directory-but-allow-php-to-display

Answer 1

Try the below code in .htaccess and hopw it should work.

RewriteEngine On
Options -Indexes
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^%{HTTP_HOST}$ [NC]
RewriteRule .(swf|gif|png|jpg|doc|xls|pdf|html|htm|xlsx|docx)$ [R,L]

Answer 2

Not possible. There is nothing in the http protocol that differentiates between a file being displayed inline inside other content and being downloaded separately. All the webserver knows is that the file was requested from the server and it delivers that file.

There are tricks you can do with client-side javascript, or with checking the referrer or user agent, etc. but all of them are easy to circumvent, and note that regardless of what you do that file has to be downloaded in order to be displayed in any capacity.