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FlyingCat
FlyingCat

Reputation: 14280

.htaccess deny from all

I have copied one of my old applications and renamed it to New_application. I want to access .htaccess file that is inside the New_application folder. When I opened it with my text editor, it just showed Deny from all. I tried to open .htaccess in my old application, it showed Deny from all too. I remember I was able to edit it before but not sure what I can't now. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot.

Upvotes: 80

Views: 449902

Answers (4)

chris
chris

Reputation: 36947

Deny from all

is an .htaccess command (the actual content of that file you are trying to view). Not a denial of being able to edit the file. Just reopen the .htaccess file in the text viewer of choice and make the alterations as you so desire, save it, then reupload it to your folder of choice.

Though I think inadvertently you are blocking even yourself from viewing said application once uploaded.

I would do something like:

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1

which will deny everyone but the IP in the allow from line, which you would change the IP to match your IP which you can obtain from http://www.whatismyip.com/ or similar site.

Upvotes: 196

andiOak
andiOak

Reputation: 396

A little alternative to @gasp´s answer is to simply put the actual domain name you are running it from. Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html

In the following example, there is no authentication and all hosts in the example.org domain are allowed access; all other hosts are denied access.

Apache 2.2 configuration:

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from example.org

Apache 2.4 configuration:

Require host example.org

Upvotes: 0

gasp
gasp

Reputation: 596

This syntax has changed with the newer Apache HTTPd server, please see upgrade to apache 2.4 doc for full details.

2.2 configuration syntax was

Order deny,allow
Deny from all

2.4 configuration now is 

Require all denied

Thus, this 2.2 syntax

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1

Would ne now written

Require local

Upvotes: 32

Sahand
Sahand

Reputation: 2175

You can edit it. The content of the file is literally "Deny from all" which is an Apache directive: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authz_host.html#deny

Upvotes: 4

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