prevent ppl from viewing contents of some directories

[aurir_]

I wrote the following script to prevent ppl from viewing contents of 'scripts', 'styles', and any hidden directories. The problem is that when I prevent ppl from viewing scripts or styles, it seems like apache itself doesn't have access to those folders and my page simply has no styles and no scripts. What am I doing wrong?

 

# Disallow browsing of Subversion working copy administrative dirs.
        <DirectoryMatch "^/.*/(styles|scripts|\..*)/">
                AllowOverride None
                Order Deny,Allow
                Deny from all
        </DirectoryMatch>

 

[trq]

What am I doing wrong?

 

Nothing, but you can't deny access and also serve the same directories.

[asmith3006]

I think you need to "Allow all" and then add "Options -Indexes" which will stop the folder listing files (is that what you were after??)

 

Or, if you don't want to write an htaccess file you could always put a blank index.htm file in there instead.