simple PHP gallery question

[agh98]

I, like many of you, have installed gallery (and love it!)
Simple questions:

Currently, the gallery is located at domainname.com/gallery. I don't have any other sites setup (integrating the gallery into a larger website is my next goal - I've seen great ones but don't know how to do it).

What I want to accomplish is to make domainname.com go right to the gallery and disable http directory viewing so people can't just to albums directly/browse the website manually. Is this possible and is there anything else I should do to keep unwanted visitors away from the site?
Thanks in advance,

Adam

[fshagan]

You can do this using a redirect page. Put the following three lines in a text file and name it "index.php":

<?
Header("Location:http://www.domain.tld/gallery");
?>

FTP that file to your public_html folder, and when someone surfs to http://www.domain.tld, the "index.php" file will redirect them to the Gallery.

There is a disadvantage; the URL they see in the browser's address bar when they get there will be "http://www.domain.tld/gallery" rather than the shorter version, and if they bookmark it, their bookmark will take them directly to the folder "gallery" rather than to your public_html folder. Those aren't big problems, unless you really want to hide where they are on your site.

[Jesse_Siegel]

About integrating gallery, I found 4images easier to deal with than the one that comes in the fantastico installer, if you would like to see my website it is www.nettowa-ku.com and the gallery is www.nettowa-ku.com/gallery

I hope this is usefull, oh if you need further help I might be able to make a quick tutorial or something.