Bohatir Posted January 28, 2003 Posted January 28, 2003 Hello friends! I hope everyone is feeling fine and spiffy! I was doing homework, but I decided to ask a question so that someone can answer it while I finish my homework for college. Here is my question: For the first time in my life I have my own domain name and hosting on this great host "TotalChoice Hosting" Well I have uploaded maybe 500 pictures so far for my website archive, and well I dont want people to look at them by simply typing in www.yourwebsite.com/images. Because I use my images on some forums, and people then go ahead and grab all of my images. Is there any way to block their access? There must be, I just dont know how. Also... I know I can have unlimited e-mails with my domain name... well when I go to setup my e-mail, it says for me to download some file that will automaticly setup my Outlook Express for me. Well when I do this... the Outlook Express cant log into my e-mail.. And I tried looking for help on the website, it syas something about some STMP or something.... I dont know. Anyways... can someone tell me how I can get my e-mail to show up through Outlook Express? I would appreciate it very much! Thank you for taking the time to read my questions. Also I would like to introduce my self. My name is Igor. I am originally from the Ukraine. I am 7'8" tall and 20 years old. I am currently attending the local small college in my city in Minnesota. My major is "Midrange Computer Specialist" which basically means Networking and crap. Well lets see.... I have 2 dogs. One Siberian Husky, he is 3.5 years old. And one Alaskan Malamute, he is 4 months old. I would appreciate any help! Thanks! Igor Quote
Lianna Posted January 29, 2003 Posted January 29, 2003 Igor, It's nice to meet you. Man, that's really tall. I'm only 5'3"! First question was how to block access to the images folder. You can use the PassProtect from within cPanel to assign a username and password for access to the folder /images. Second question was how to configure Outlook Express. For the main account (the name that you use to login to cpanel with) its username is just the name. But for all created email accounts, you must set the username to myname@**** (the full email address). Your incoming (pop3) and outgoing (smtp) mail servers should be set to mail.****. **Of course, replace my reference to mydomain to your domain name and myname as the email account that you created. Does that help? Lianna Quote
Bohatir Posted January 30, 2003 Author Posted January 30, 2003 Hello lstover!! Thank uou so very much!!! I finally got my e-mail to work thanks to your help! I appreciate the help very much!!!! YAY I got my own e-mail now. But when I go to lock up my images folder, I cant seem to get it working. Here is a pic of the screen, well a part of it. {Image deleted by lstover, was linked behind protection} I checked that box, like I think im supposed to. And what do I put into that box where it says "Protected Resource Name" I tried putting in Images. and I put in a new user, for my self. And when I went to login through just the url, it asked me for password and username, I gave it, and it keeps poppin back up. How do I solve this dilema? Please help me again. Thanks Quote
Bohatir Posted January 30, 2003 Author Posted January 30, 2003 Never mind! Im so smart, I solved it my self!!! I fixed my problema!!!! Quote
Lianna Posted January 30, 2003 Posted January 30, 2003 Well, three things. Every time I come to this post I get prompted to enter a username and password to access ukraineonline.net. Sorry, but that ain't too good. So, I'm going to edit your post to eliminate the linked image...which you've placed behind the protection! Second, YAY for the email! Third, share! So what was the problem and how did you I fixed my problema!!!!??? That's how everyone learns by coming here. Thanks. Lianna Quote
Bohatir Posted January 31, 2003 Author Posted January 31, 2003 Well.... I guess I didnt fix it cuz as u said people cant even see my images now. So I guess it cant be done. Cuz I put a password on my images account and it blocked everything. So... I have no idea what to do. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Hi, Let me get this straight: A ) You have 500 pictures you want to stop people from downloading from your site but want to use in a gallery? B ) However you wish to be able to post the odd one or two up on a forum? In a sense, A + B is impossible. I have software which can download an entire website if its set up correctley. However, if its password protected then it can't happen but puts B into a problem too. What I would suggest is that you watermark every single one of your pictures. Tideous I know but proberley the best way to stop people downloading them all. I suppose you could set up SSL to do the same thing too but again, that would mean that for B, you would need a seperate access. I would watermark them all. Jim Quote
Devynn Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 I think what he means is he doesn't want an index on the images directory. You can do that through the index manager. Go to your cpanel and click on Index manager under Site Management. Find the folder you wish to not list what files are in it and click on the name of the folder, not the icon next to it. Then choose No Indexes and click save. Viola! If someone goes to http://www.******/images, they will be denied a directory listing. Now just take off the password protection and you can still link to images from that directory only if you know the image name. Quote
Lianna Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Now way! I learn something new everyday! Thanks for that great tip, Devynn. Lianna Quote
Devynn Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 No problem. I used to do the same thing with my NT server except I could actually have a GUI that said deny directory listing instead of saying deny index. Just a bit of different terminolgy (spelling?). Quote
Lianna Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 And one of these days I'll actually sit down and read the full documentation to cPanel! My previous host had no such thing and I'm still getting used to having all the goodies at my fingertips. Lianna Quote
Devynn Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 ACK! You actually think I read the documentation??? No no no! I never read the destructions! Ok, maybe not never, but rarely...hehe. I usually beat my head against it till I figure out what it does. That's more fun that way! hehehe Quote
TCH-JimE Posted January 31, 2003 Posted January 31, 2003 Well it will would work, but the images are still there if you do a small amount of HTML adjustment to a page sitting on your desktop. Its an ok solution, but if people really want thoose images, it wont be hard to work around it Jim Quote
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