If you are running php websites, and a php includes folder that is only used for the calling of your own php scripts. I know you do not want browsers to access your includes folder. You can do it by htaccess file using Mod_Write.
## Enable Mod Rewrite, this is only required once in each .htaccess file RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / ## Test for access to includes directory RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /includes/ .*$ [NC] ## Test that file requested has php extension RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^.+\.php$ ## Forbid Access RewriteRule .* - [F,NS,L]
Where /includes/ is your includes directory. All browsers to your includes folder are forbidden.