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Kit Barnes
Kit Barnes

Reputation: 775

Allowing/Disallowing directory listings with .htaccess

I have a wordpress site running, and currently anyone can view the uploads directory by visiting 

http://site.com/wp-content/uploads

I want to stop this directory from being viewed in a browser but I want a subfolder to be viewable (eg. http://site.com/wp-content/uploads/PublicUploads). I have tried setting 

IndexIgnore *

in the uploads folder, but I cannot work out how to set the sub folder back to visible.

Any help would be appreciated

Upvotes: 1

Views: 425

Answers (2)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785276

Using mod_rewrite you can block direct access to wp-content/uploads directory like this:

RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/?$ - [F,NC]

Keep in mind that this will only block browsing of /wp-content/uploads contents but will allow /wp-content/uploads/PublicUploads or any /wp-content/uploads/foo.

Upvotes: 0

Gerben
Gerben

Reputation: 16825

Most people use

Options -indexes

To make a subdirectory visible again, you'll need to put a .htaccess file inside that subdir, with Options +indexes inside it.

Upvotes: 2

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