Title: Protect Directory
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Protect Directory

 *  [Erwin6210](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erwin6210/)
 * (@erwin6210)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/protect-directory/)
 * I Need your help. I have a WordPress Site up and running since about 4 months
   and I’m very happy with it. My Webpage has two separate areas, a members only
   area and a public area. I use the CaPa plugin for this protection. WordPress 
   itself is installed in subdirectory and with .htaccess I access it from the root.
   
   I like to protect a document folder with several subfolder direct access from
   outside of WP. This folder can be in wp upload folder or outside. I have mainly
   pictures in a flash slideshow and some sensitive pdf or swf documents which are
   only for members. It can happen that a search engine find and publish some of
   this documents and I want prevent this. I can protect this directory with the
   cpanel, but I don’t want that the member has to login twice. Is there a plugin
   or any help for a non programmer? I tried several options I have found in the
   forum with .htaccess but without any success. Probably the installation in a 
   folder makes it more difficult. But I’m pretty sure you guys find a solution.
   I tried this .htacces in the document folder but then I can’t access the files
   anymore even when I’m logged in. I get directly redirected to the homepage. IndexIgnore*
   Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(
   www\.)?myserver.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !hotlink\.(gif|png|jpg|doc
   |xls|pdf|html|htm|xlsx|docx) [NC] RewriteRule .*\.(gif|png|jpg|doc|xls|pdf|html
   |htm|xlsx|docx)$ [http://myserver.com/](http://myserver.com/) [NC]

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/protect-directory/)
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