On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:14:44 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > any clue please ? > >> # >> # The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being >> # viewed by Web clients. >> # >> <Files ~ "^\.ht"> >> Order allow,deny >> Deny from all >> </Files> FWIW I'm using: : |<FilesMatch "^\.ht"> | Order allow,deny | Deny from all | Satisfy All |</FilesMatch> : _after_ all other <Files ...> directives. WFM HTH Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux 38.24N 104.55W | @ config.com | Jonesy | OS/2 * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx