[pmwiki-users] Securing images

[Neil Herber (nospam)]

On 2007-01-12 kirpi at kirpi.it is rumoured to have said:
> I tried and set a quick live example, where:
> http://www.kirpi.it/listing/ is the general directory open to anyone
> http://www.kirpi.it/listing/friends/ is the "friends" folder (id=kirpi
> pass=kirpi)
> http://www.kirpi.it/listing/personal is my own, closed folder 
> (id=kirpi
> pass=private)
> The directories under /listing/ are now (as a test) protected with 
> apache.
> 
> A wiki test page is now set at
> http://www.kirpi.it/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.ImagesTest
> 
> Would that be a sound setting?
> And, in case it would, how do I let the action=upload store files in
> the right directory?
> How would I integrate it with pmwiki handling of things?
> 

That seems to work really well (better than I expected!!) and it is as 
safe as any other Apache BA protected page.

Not sure about the upload question. I'd like to know the answer myself!

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Neil Herber
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