Apache .htaccess

The Apache Webserver file .htaccess is a powerful tool for managing the access and navigation to your webserver.
Unfortunately, the working is not very intuitive and not very simple.

Examples

Prevent PHP-Directory Access

The usage of a special PHP-include directory is a common implementation paradigm.
But you don't want anyone to have access to that directory except the program/application. This snippet prevents the access to the directory file with extension php. <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">

1. 1. Enable Mod Rewrite, this is only required once in each .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /

1. 1. Test for access to the include directory

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /phpinclude/.*$ [NC]

1. 1. Test that file requested has php extension

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.+\.php$

1. 1. Forbid Access

RewriteRule .* - [F,NS,L]

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