htaccess question

ChicoMendez

hi

I created a newsletter directory to put HTML files.

I’d like to block the access to http://www.domain.com/newsletter/ but not to the newsletters themselves.

I can’t remember how to do that.

does anyone know ???

Rollo Tamasi

I'm not 100% on what you want to do.
Do you have files in a dir which you don't want listed if they go to domain.com/dir? If that's the case then you need to prevent directory listing via a .htaccess file, put this line in a .htaccess file and save it in the dir - IndexIgnore * - You could just put a blank index.html file in the directory too.

phil

Standard Unix permissions will help you here as well.

Providing you own the directory and aren't the user who runs Apache, then:

$ chmod 711 dirname

If non-octal permissions make more sense use:

$ chmod u=rwx,g=x,o=x dirname

That means read, write and execute permission for you (i.e. full control), and only execute permissions for everyone else

Execute-only permissions on a directory means you can read files from the directory but only if you know their full name. You cannot get a directory listing.

Phil.

forbairt

An alternative would be to just throw in an index file into that folder thats empty hence they won't get a directory listing ? as I believe you still want people able to see ... /newsletter/januarynewsletter.html ? if they so wish ?

edit: just saw "Rollo Tamasi" .. blank index file ..