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I have the site example.com.

In one of its folders, I have a different site which is accessed through the domain exampleSubSite.com and the folder of the second site is called /exampleSubSiteFolder/.

The access is made via redirect in the .htaccess of the main site:

 RewriteRule ^exampleSubSiteFolder - [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?exampleSubSite\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ exampleSubSiteFolder/$1 [L]

However, I DO NOT want this folder to be accessible from the URL of the main site:

exampleSite.com/exampleSubSiteFolder/

Can someone, please help me with that? I know the solution is bad as a whole, but this does not depend on me.

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  • is this 2.2 or 2.4? Are you the admin of the site? Commented Jan 30, 2017 at 15:32
  • Yes, I am Apache version is 2.4.18 Commented Jan 31, 2017 at 10:12

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This is how I would do it In virtualhost context (only works on 2.4.x): 

<Directory /path/to/exampleSubSiteFolder> <If "%{HTTP_HOST} == 'exampleSite.com'"> Require all denied </If> <Else> Require all granted </Else> </Directory>

If you were not the admin and only have access to .htaccess, I would just place inside a .htaccess in the specified directory:

<If "%{HTTP_HOST} == 'exampleSite.com'"> Require all denied </If> <Else> Require all granted </Else>

My recommendation, never use .htaccess if you can admin the site and main conf, virtualhosts,etc.

This is all assuming you have only a single "catch-all" virtualhost of course and/or .htaccess.

If you have a virtualhost for each name (which is what everyone should do), it will be enough with having Require all denied or granted where appropiate in each virtualhost.

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Wow, that was great! Thank you!
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To do this, inside the folder named exampleSubSiteFolder create a .htaccess file and add the following inside of it:

Order Allow,Deny Deny from all

However, if you're using Apache 2.4, then you would use the following instead:

Require all denied

So anyone that tries to access exampleSubSite.com/exampleSubSiteFolder/ would be stopped.

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Thank you! Maybe I did not explain correct /exampleSubSiteFolder/ is the root folder of the site exampleSubSite.com so I am worried if this change would make the folder inaccessible at any ways or only f accessed as exampleSite.com/exampleSubSiteFolder/

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