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Best way to restrict direct access to files and folders?

edited February 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
I need to prevent users from gaining direct access to directories or files, e.g. www.mysite.com/vanilla/applications/ or ...vanilla/plugins etc, but obviously still need the forum be able to run as an application as a whole.

I tried to add a .htaccess in each folder (applications, plugins etc), and add something like this (and other similar commands):

<Files *> Deny From All </Files>

But it tends to break certain parts of the forum.

Could anyone recommended the best way to force 403 forbidden when a user is trying to directly access directories in Vanilla?


Also I dont want to use something as simple as IndexIgnore *, as this is not adequate because the file locations are easy to guess.

Thanks

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