[eluser]night_day[/eluser]
I was reading through the forum on the best way to provide a secure area for uploads that can't get hotlinked. Since I can't access the web root to put another folder there, I am left with putting a folder in the root of my CI installation. From my readings, the best thing to do was to utilize .htaccess to deny all from the folder. When I do this though, I am not able to use force_download to get the file back, am I missing something here? I assume since the deny from all is disallowing that, then how can I read the file back like others had mentioned in previous posts. Thanks!