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Preventing anonymous downloads with .htpasswd/.htaccess??????

  • April 11, 2019
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I am attempting to secure a newly setup external facing HTTPS Ubuntu file distribution point. Is it possible to prevent downloading a file with the absolute path using .htpasswd/.htaccess files?

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Hugonaut
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  • April 11, 2019

from experience with web development .htaccess is very powerful and should prevent access. but i am not an expert on this subject! shouldl work though.