Hi Bernhard, I faced the same issue trying to protect images and pdfs. In my case, the entire wiki was private. but the urls to images and pdfs (if one knew) were accessible to all. I tried many methods, but these two Location directives in the apache virtual host config for my wiki solved the issue for me. <Location "/<mywikiname>/Main_Page"> AuthType Basic Require valid-user </Location> <Location "/<mywikiname>/images"> AuthType Basic AuthGroupFile /path/to/mywiki-groups Require group <mygroup> </Location> Hope this helps. Thanks, Poornima. ________________________________________ From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Scheid, Bernhard [Bernhard.Scheid(a)oeaw.ac.at] Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 9:31 AM To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] protect images and pdfs I am running a semi-public Wiki where some pages are reserved for internal use (basically for copy-right reasons). While I can restrict access to the respective wiki articles (using user groups and user rights), the same seems not possible for pure image links (addressing the image, not the file page) or pdf-links respectively. Is there a way to prohibit access to images and pdfs either? Bernhard _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l