Prevent directory and file access

[Cinta April]

How do I prevent someone from reading my files by directly typing the url of my file?

[PHPGator]

if you have a cpanel account you should be able to easily put these protected files in a directory and then password protect the directory.

If you are totally confused but know that you have a cpanel account I will be more than happy to do it for you for $5.00 - $10.00 :)

[Vbot]

Here is two simple ways which you can do:

1. Create a blank index.html and upload to directory which you don't want to be listed.

2. Create a file named .htaccess and put the following line of text into that file
Options All -Indexes
Then upload it to your public_html directory.

[Cinta April]

doesn't work I seem to be able to read my file. How do I prevent someone from reading my text files when I upload it to a server?

[bartolay13]

please read more about mod_rewrite..
ill post the link later

[Vbot]

Oops, I thought you want to disable directory listing :D
Here is the actual code that you need.

put this in your .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$
RewriteRule \.(txt)$ - [F]
</IfModule>

that will stop people from directly typing the url of my file .txt files, but it doesn't prevent hotlinking though.