Title: Add authentication to uploads dir
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Add authentication to uploads dir

 *  Resolved [bhogan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhogan/)
 * (@bhogan)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-authentication-to-uploads-dir/)
 * Is your plugin compatible with any authentication schemes?
 * I want to restrict access to the wp-clone directory. Your naming scheme is very
   programmatic and anyone who has used it could guess the url, as pointed out in
   another issue.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/)

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 *  [wpacademy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpacademy/)
 * (@wpacademy)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-authentication-to-uploads-dir/#post-3550932)
 * 2.1.3 will change the “predictable” naming structure ,at least to some extent,
   but until then,just disable the plugin when you’re not using it (and this really
   shouldn’t be used as a backup plugin),that places a .htaccess file in the backup
   directory to prevent all external access to the files.
 *  Thread Starter [bhogan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bhogan/)
 * (@bhogan)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-authentication-to-uploads-dir/#post-3550960)
 * Understood, but manual steps can be forgotten. So adding a little bit of security
   would help mitigate those times. I’m also using IIS, so the .htaccess file doesn’t
   solve anything. One more reason why I should convince my boss to switch to Apache.
 * Anyways, thanks for the reply. I’m looking forward to the next release.
 *  [wpacademy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpacademy/)
 * (@wpacademy)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-authentication-to-uploads-dir/#post-3551065)
 * added to my todo list 😉

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-authentication-to-uploads-dir/#post-3551065)
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