Prevent directory and file access

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

 

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

 

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

Code (markup):

Then upload it to your public_html directory.

 

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?

 

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

 

Oops, I thought you want to disable directory listing
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>

Code (markup):

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