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May 24th, 2001, 10:39 PM

cindy_lens

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how to hide .htaccess

I have this in the .htaccess file to block people from viewing the .htaccess file, but does not work. Is there something misconfigured in the apache?

<Files .htaccess>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Files>

May 25th, 2001, 07:42 AM

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<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

is equivalent to:

<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

Any hidden file starts with ht (including .htpasswd) would be blocked from web access [403] error. This doesn't mean you can't use .htaccess to authenticate users because it's done internally.

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