: Deny access to a folder on hosting server but serve the pages My hosting server allows to host multiple websites. The directory structure is like this root |_ www.a.com |_ www.b.com |_ www.c.com

@Gretchen104

I suspect "Password protect folder" puts a password on for people using web browsers. I think the best way to achieve this is to have separate ftp logons for the directories for a.com, b.com and c.com. Then only you, with access to the root, have access to the files for d.com. You could make the passwords the same so that people only have to remember one password.

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@Sarah324

PHP is executed on the server so if someone pulls up a PHP file in their browser the PHP will always execute and users will only ever see the output it creates. If you can see PHP code in your browser you either have a coding error or Apache is not set up properly.

If you want to make sure no one can see the files listed in these directories but still pull up the web pages, you can do that easily with .htaccess:

Options -Indexes

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