.htaccess

[D@Z]

Recently I've been looking up .htaccess to protect my content which is in folders on my host.

I followed a tutorial online that showed me how to deny all IP address apart from my own. This caused a big problem. It worked - but images then would not work on my website and people could not link my button etc.

This also happens to me when I password protect my directories via cPanel. Is there an easy way of doing this?

I basically want all my folders forbidden to everyone apart from me, yet the images or whatever content is in the folder still shows on the webpage.

Thanks very much for your help!

 

[nicedomain4sale]

Turn off the index of folder by using Index Manager on CPanel.

Use robot.txt to disallow spider crawl your folder.
This is an example:

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/

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If you use password protect, then all content inside is forbidden for whom doesn't the password.

 

[Mystic]

aint robots.txt just there for search engines? i may be wrong but..

 

[D@Z]

i went into Index Manager in cPanel and put it as "No Index" on my folders. I then visited my folders and a 403 Forbidden message shown. Hopefully this will work for everyone.

thanks very much for your help!

 

[nicedomain4sale]

aint robots.txt just there for search engines? i may be wrong but..

Yes, in fact there are two steps, turn off directory indexing, and use robot.txt

If you don't use robot.txt , then someone can steal file (example .psd file) on your directory using Google.

 

[brianfast]

how exactly do they do that?