Apache:Deny access to some folders in Apache Directory Indexing

Let’s see how we can deny access to all the .svn folders that exist on the server.In order to achieve this we will add the following configuration lines in the appropriate context (either global config, or vhost/directory, or from .htaccess):


Order allow,deny
Deny from all

Similar to this we can deny access to other folders we might need…

Note: this will show a Forbidden page (code 403) even if the folder does not exist and it is just called from the browser in the url.
Another way how this can be quickly accomplished is by using a Rewrite rule:

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\\.svn/ - [F,L]or using a redirect:

RedirectMatch 404 /\\.svn(/|$)(in this last example I am using 404 as the returned code so this looks like the folder doesn’t exist on the server; of course if you prefer you can return 403 – forbidden code