• I have been using the security code from the Digging into WordPress book to help secure my WordPress sites. The last website I used this on my client received this error when accessing the website:

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

    Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    I did some trouble shooting and found that the following code was causing the issue:

    # PROTECT SENSITIVE FILES BY FILE TYPE
    <FilesMatch "\.(htaccess|htpasswd|ini|php|fla|psd|log)$">
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 01.234.567.890
    </FilesMatch>

    I have used this code on several websites and not received this error. Anyone know the cause of this and what I should be using to protect these files?

    Thanks!

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