Hi all,
I'm a new zenphoto user and I read several posts in the forum asking for full size image protection to prevent direct access using image original url.

I setup "full image protection" to "download" and uploaded an .htaccess file into albums folder with the following content:

`

order deny,allow

deny from all

allow from 127.0.0.1

`

That setup prevents any "external" request to my albums but allow me to download the full size image when I am logged in.

Hope this helps someone...

We have another related htaccess solution already on the troubleshooting:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/troubleshooting-guide#troubleshooting-security (see hotlinking).

Thank you acrylian but I've tested your .htaccess and it doesn't work for me (hotlinking test fail).

I've installed zenphoto under the root of my user folder (dreamhost hosting) and setup a subdomain to that folder.

Maybe we have to check that again or offer two ways.