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#13024 .htaccess maker

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 14:30 CDT

Tuesday, 24 July 2012 08:15 CDT

DaveOzric
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? yes
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Joomla! version: (2.5.6)
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Admin Tools version: (2.1.0)

Description of my issue:
When I used the default options to create a .htaccess file it blocked some of my photos from showing on the front end. The photos were all in the same sub-directory in a few sub-folders. See example below.

/public_html/images/igallery/resized/1-100
/public_html/images/igallery/resized/1101-1200

Can you tell me how this could happen so I can configure this in the future.
Thank you

Tuesday, 24 July 2012 08:32 CDT

nicholas
Did the files not have an extension at all, or do they have an extension but you skipped it? If they do have an extension, what is it? Be aware that case matters, i.e. jpg, Jpg and JPG are three different extensions as far as the web server is concerned.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012 09:04 CDT

DaveOzric
Interesting. Yes there are a mix of .jpg and .JPG

Tuesday, 24 July 2012 09:09 CDT

nicholas
OK, here's the deal. The .htaccess Maker only allows certain file extensions to be accessible over the web. This is a security precaution. It's quite possible that the server has set up a non-standard file extension to be executable. In this case an attacker could exploit a vulnerability on your site to upload a malicious executable file and access it over the web. .htaccess Maker proactively disables such a possibility by having a list of "safe" extensions. Unfortunately, servers consider .JPG and .jpg to be different extensions. Only the latter is in the default list. It's easy to add it, though.

Go to the .htaccess Maker in Admin Tools and expand the Server Security slider. Append JPG (all caps) to the list of "Front-end file types allowed in selected directories". That should do the trick.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Tuesday, 24 July 2012 13:37 CDT

DaveOzric
Yes sir, that did it.

Thank you for the excellent support!

Tuesday, 24 July 2012 14:30 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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