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How do I use Fotomoto with password-protected sites?

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Fotomoto works nicely with password-protected web galleries, but Fotomoto does need to be able to access your images on your website. This article shows one example of how you can allow Fotomoto to access images on your site if you're using basic auth.

Fotomoto needs to access your images

Fotomoto can be used to sell images in password protected galleries, but your server/application must allow our servers to access your images.

Initially, Fotomoto needs to access your images so they can be loaded in to your Fotomoto Dashboard as explained in How Fotomoto works on your site. In order to make this possible, your site needs to allow requests from fotomoto.com. Below is an example for those using Apache basic authentication. If you're using something else, you'll need to otherwise allow or whitelist requests from fotomoto.com.

Basic authentication example

If you're using Apache basic authentication to password-protect the image gallery on your site, the following code can be used in your .htaccess file. Important: the path specified for AuthUserFile needs to point to your .htpasswd file.

AuthName "Restricted Area"

	AuthType Basic

	AuthUserFile /path/.htpasswd

	AuthGroupFile /dev/null

	Satisfy any

	<Limit POST GET>

	order deny,allow

	deny from all

	allow from *.fotomoto.com

	require valid-user

	</Limit>

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