htaccess Directory deny from all

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I ve been cleaning up my project lately  I have a main  htaccess in the root directory and 6 others  5 of them ran Options -Indexes which i didn t see anypoint of allowing any Directory viewing so moved that to the main one  so now i only have 2  htaccess files  the main and one in  system which holds    Block External Access deny from all   So i wanted to run that on  system only from within the main  So i deleted the one in  system and added     Block External Access  lt Directory   system   gt  deny from all  lt  Directory gt    to my main  htaccess file leaving 1    but now i get a      Internal Server Error      The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was   unable to complete your request       Please contact the server administrator  webmaster localhost and   inform them of the time the error occurred  and anything you might   have done that may have caused the error       More information about this error may be available in the server error   log       Apache 2 2 17  Ubuntu  Server at 10 0 1 5 Port 80   The goal is to block reading any files in  system and it s sub directory s but allow viewing of everything else all from one  htaccess file for the whole project  Any ideas on how i can fix this  I did some Google searches but couldn t really come out with anything

User · Accepted Answer

You cannot use the Directory directive in  htaccess   However if you create a  htaccess file in the  system directory and place the following in it  you will get the same result   place this in  system  htaccess as you had before deny from all

User · Answer

You can also use RedirectMatch directive to deny access to a folder   To deny access to a folder  you can use the following RedirectMatch in htaccess     RedirectMatch 403   folder      This will forbid an external access to  folder  eg   http   example com folder  will return a 403 forbidden error   To deny access to  everything inside the folder  You can use this    RedirectMatch 403   folder       This will block access to the entire folder eg   http   example com folder anyURI will return a 403 error response to client

User · Answer

You can use from root directory   RewriteEngine On RewriteRule     system  b    403 html   Or   RewriteRule     system  b    403 php   with header  HTTP 1 0 403 Forbidden

[apache] htaccess <Directory> deny from all

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