Using htaccess, how to restrict seeing directory contents, but allow server to use the contents?

Question

More specifically, I have an htaccess file that restricts anyone from seeing the directory contents. Such that, nobody can see my 1000s of images in www.example.com/images by us

Answer 1

To me I feel the easiest way of getting it done is with a redirect. On the images directory, just create an index page and in the index page you have a redirect to your site index page i.e

So that whenever anyone tries to access the image page directly they end up going to your site's root.