: Htaccess / FilesMatch / DirectoryMatch allow .jpg .html and directories Navigation in my site is like this: www.example.com/pictures/cars/ etc I am trying to allow only .html and .jpg in these

@Ogunnowo487

The <FilesMatch> directive matches against physical files. When requesting just the directory then the "file" is essentially empty. This is despite the fact that Apache then makes an internal subrequest for the directory index document (ie. index.html in this case). This subrequest would seem to occur after the <FilesMatch> directive is processed.

So, in order to allow direct access to directories you can modify your existing regex to allow "empty" files. For example:

<FilesMatch "^(.+.(jpg|html))?$">


This essentially makes the filename optional.



Aside: <DirectoryMatch> directives are only permitted in the server config (not .htaccess). .htaccess files are essentially the same as the <Directory> wrapper, but within your webspace.

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