Apache .htaccess <FilesMatch> // Setting as forbidden subfolder files-CodePudding

I'm going mad over Apache .htaccess

I'm trying to setting as protected my subfolders using relative address, but it seems impossible.

The path of Apache folder is structured like this:

/var/www/apachedir

now I want to protect

/var/www/apachedir/subfolder/*

What I tryied is putting in /var/www/apachedir/ an .htaccess file like this

<FilesMatch "subfolder\/.*">
    Order Allow,Deny
    Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

but it seems not woking good.

I don't want to use ModRewrite and I want to make this .htaccess reusable.

So, listen, if I put the site over an other server that has a direcory structure like /var/www/zzz it has to protect files in /var/www/zzz/subfolder/*.

Also the file .htaccess has to stay in the root folder /var/www/apachedir.

There's a way to do it?

Edit: I don't want to use ModRewrite but also I don't want to use Redirectmatch.

I want to know if there's a way to set it up with FilesMatch

CodePudding user response：

I don't want to use ModRewrite.

You can use RedirectMatch to block access to a known path:

Redirectmatch 403 ^/subfolder/