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#28978 Restrict access to certain image folders

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Latest post by iorbita on Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:28 CST

Tuesday, 09 January 2018 11:54 CST

iorbita
Hello,
I installed a component (Balbooa Gallery) that gives access to all Joomla Media folders, I don’t find is very reassuring that all members can have access to all images on the site.

I would like to restrict access only to the image folder of the component and this only to certain users.

I use ACL Manager but it’s not possible to manage permissions of subfolders in Media folder.

What is the best approach to adopt with AdminTools?
First, can AdminTools handle this type of limitation? What should be the option to use? .htaccess Maker or maybe WAF Blacklist?


Thank you for all advice you can give me about it.

Lorenzo
Edited by iorbita on 2018-01-09 11:54 CST

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:42 CST

tampe125
Hello,

I'm sorry but that's not possible.
Images are served directly from your webserver, without passing trough Joomla. This means that even Admin Tools can simply completely block or allow access to a specific folder, you can't do that on a per-user basis.
In order to do what your trying to do, you need an ad-hoc component, that will serve images based on user permissions.

Davide Tampellini

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Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:12 CST

iorbita
... thank you for your explanation, maybe you have a component to advise me that could perform this task?

Lorenzo

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:19 CST

tampe125
Honestly I don't have any component to suggest, I've never used anything like that.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Wednesday, 10 January 2018 04:28 CST

iorbita
...ok, thank you anyway ...

Lorenzo

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