On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 21:53:43 +0000 (UTC) Jonesy <gmane@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Hello Jonesy, your response have a clue and I have applied it, now everything is ok :-) I have placed the default config `````````````` <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> `````````````````````` at the very end of httpd.conf and now it is working well, even yours is also working only at the very end of the config. So I have learned that this config needs to be placed at the very end. Thanks to all of you, have a nice time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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