Title: blocking access to wordpress folder
Last modified: January 20, 2017

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# blocking access to wordpress folder

 *  [PETbottle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petbottle/)
 * (@petbottle)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-access-to-wordpress-folder/)
 * :deleted:
    I figured it out. It was my first time using SSH, so I encountered
   some challenges, but thankfully I seem to have found the solution. Great forum,
   by the way.

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 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-access-to-wordpress-folder/#post-57161)
 * PETbottle,
    Perhaps you should have left your question and then supplied your
   solution so that others may benefit from your experience.
 *  Thread Starter [PETbottle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petbottle/)
 * (@petbottle)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-access-to-wordpress-folder/#post-57451)
 * Good point.
    Basically, my problem was that I didn’t want others to be able to
   access my wordpress folder at mydomain.com/wordpress, but I didn’t know how to
   restrict access. To solve the problem, I ended up using Telnet to view the ‘Properties’
   of the folder and unclick the ‘Read’ box under the ‘Public’ heading, thereby 
   which anyone who attempts to access mydomain.com/wordpress will get a 403: Forbidden
   message. I believe this is all related to chmod coding, but I’m not very familiar
   with this.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-access-to-wordpress-folder/#post-57452)
 * PETbottle:
    That’s certainly one way of doing it, another is to put all the necessary
   instructions into the .htaccess file that contains all your Rewrite rules. A 
   pretty good site for this is : [http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_intro.html](http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_intro.html)
   You can then block by IP, have password access only, block hotlinking and a few
   other bits too.

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 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-access-to-wordpress-folder/#post-57452)
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