How to read images from a folder with htaccess file

Question

Hello,

I am using the readfile function to read image files. It works in most cases except when an image is located in a directory with htaccess file.

Here is an example:

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
ob_clean(); // clean output buffer
flush(); // flush output buffer 
readfile("http://127.0.0.1/WebProjects/project1/data/media/images/original/7.jpg");
exit;

The htaccess is located in the http://127.0.0.1/WebProjects/project1/ directory and looks like this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} =""
RewriteRule ^.*$ /public/index.php [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^public/.*$ /public/index.php [NC,L]

Any way how to get around this? The htaccess file must be there because the web application in that folder needs it to work.

Answer 1

Why not read the file directly from the filesystem instead of going through the web server?

readfile("/srv/WebProjects/project1/data/media/images/original/7.jpg");

Answer 2

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR}="127.0.0.1"

Use REMOTE_ADDR as a new RewriteCond before others to skip them. Since you exec code is local it will also be from 127.0.0.1 and should go through neatly.

Answer 3

What's more than likely is that your images have read permissions for apache but no read permissions for whoever PHP runs as.

Try setting the permissions of the image to 0644.