#Prevent direct url access htaccess plus#

htaccess file go in the root directory only or does it need to be placed in all folders to function means the pattern comparison should be case-insensitive (which, considering there are no alphabetic characters in the pattern, serves no purpose). In your case, this should be the path to your custom 404 page. Without the anchors, the pattern would also match paths like “not-a-404-page”.Įrrors/404.html is the pattern you want to rewrite that path to. Including them has the effect of matching the entire pattern, rather than any part of it. ^ and $ are anchors: they specify the start and end of the url path, respectively. This will match the path “404” or “404/” (the ? makes the slash optional). In the RewriteRule above, what does ^404/?$ errors/404.html mean It’ll depend on your server config, but you’ll probably see Apache’s default 400/500 pages. htaccess file in the root will be necessary, but am not sure about the error.html pages. htaccess file containing # disable directory browsing Options All –Indexes in my root directory and it seems to be preventing direct access to all folders with a generic white page. Does an error.html file need to be in each folder to be protected? I know I basically asked this before, but as I haven’t seen this work fully, I am uncertain. htaccess file go in the root directory only or does it need to be placed in all folders to function. Do I leave the ^404/?$ and therefore it would appear as ^404/?$ Should the finished. I assume I would place the url where my custom 404 page is located on my server. I assume that this is referencing the 404 page that is on the server. In the RewriteRule above, what does ^404/?$ errors/404.html mean. If I remove all references to the categories I’m not concerned with ie 400 & 500, will a default white screen show, or are additional rules required? # (400,Bad File Request) | (401,Unauthorized) | (403,Forbidden) | (404,File Not Found) | (500,Internal Server Error) What I’ve been working on is: #Rewrite URL's I don’t believe a custom page is necessary for the other categories. I’m only interested in unauthorized, forbidden, and file not found issues. I’m basically wanting to prevent direct URL access to folders on my server which displays all files in the directory. htaccess files in the past, but if I recall it was to block certain IP addresses.

I just started learning CSS around November last and work on it when I can. PaulieD scared me saying he could access a directory on my server using Google Chrome, so I’m trying to insure access is prevented. HTML and JavaScript is pretty much my range, and the home.html was the way to block access back in the day. I started web design around 1995 and haven’t kept up with the new coding types thereafter. It’s misleading, and has no benefit to you or the user. That’s why sending a 404 instead is somewhat difficult: it’s not what Apache was designed to do. The user is trying to access a directory listing, and they’re not allowed to. Something else to consider: 403 Forbidden is the correct response to serve in this case.

If you’re using Apache > 2.2.16, you can do FallbackResource /path/to/file.html For example, you can do RewriteCond %/index.php !-f

#Prevent direct url access htaccess plus#

htaccess and 404.html in every folder PLUS create separate. But Options All -Indexes is the correct solution to this problem.ĭoes this mean I will have to post the. Basically, the index won’t be shown because the default html page is shown instead. In the past I placed a home.html page in each folder