#filesmatch

You can use following instruction on .htaccess file if you want to protect some files from users.

List your protect file ( for example : i try to protect my *.tpl, *.log, *.ini, *.txt files)

are there any ignore file? (I have a robots.txt file. it was ignored from protection)

Create your htaccess # Prevent Direct Access to files <FilesMatch "(?i)((\.tpl|\.ini|\.log|(?<!robots)\.txt))">  Order deny,allow  Deny from all </FilesMatch>

"Options -Indexes" use to disable directory browsing

"IndexIgnore *" use to prevent folder listing

In these case, "(?i)" part of the example is for caseless matching. And "(?<robots)\.txt" part is for ignori robots.txt file and protecting all the others.

If you want to ignore more file like robots.txt file. You can add like this "(?<robots|test|ignored|file)\.txt". Now, users can access robots.txt, test.txt, ignored.txt, file.txt

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