How do u protect the pictures on a paysite?

[TheMosh]

How do u protect your pictures from getting viewed around the system?
like if u loging/signup and then u see where the pictures come from in the url, and then when ur member ship is done u just type in the url and :(
how do i avoid this?

thanks for your help!

[Sureal]

you password protect your directories via htaccess

[TheMosh]

can i have more details please? thanks

[PeepNTom]

this might help you out a bit?

http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/

[Sureal]

These links here should help you out...

http://www.engr.orst.edu/computing/tutorials/htaccess/config.html

htpasswd generator..
http://www.inch.com/commercial/web/server/apache/htpasswd.html

[StwoF]

Originally posted by TheMosh
can i have more details please? thanks Most of the billing companies do this for you. you just give them ftp access and vuala, you got a members area.

[Ride]

Yeah, I know ccbill and Ibill will add the necessary .htaccess for you.

Ride

[Dusen]

If you are new, I really wouldn't suggest using any other method than htaccess. It is simple and very secure.

If you're hosting from an ensim box, you can use the control panel to auto-protect dirs with htaccess.