Plugin / Prevent Direct Access – Protect WordPress Files

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

It’s likely that you’re using an outdated version of PHP. Please check and upgrade the PHP version on your server to 5.6 or greater. In fact, WordPress itself even recommends your host supports PHP version 7.2 or greater for security purposes.
Prevent Direct Access supports websites hosted on Apache servers out of the box. In case you’re using WP Engine or other NGINX server, please check out this instruction on how to update the server configuration so that our plugin (both Free & Gold version) will work correctly as expected.
The plugin needs to add some mod_rewrite rules to your website .htaccess file (located on your website root folder) to prevents direct access to your files on the server. So it’s likely that your .htaccess is not writable (with at least 644 permission; whose owner must be also accessable by your apache server such as www-data). If that’s the case, you must either make it writable or manually update your .htaccess with the mod_rewrite rules found under Settings > Permalinks.
The free version of this plugin offers protection up to 3 files only. Please check out our Gold version which offer unlimited protected files and other premium features. More documentation can be found in our FAQ.

Ratings

4.7
81 reviews

Rating breakdown

Details Information

Version

2.5.1.1

First Released

26 Apr, 2009

Total Downloads

19,672

Wordpress Version

4.0 or higher

Tested up to:

5.3

Require PHP Version:

-

Tags

expiring links protect files protect wordpress files secure downloads

Contributors

gaupoit rexhoang Protect WordPress Media Files Support BWPS Team

Languages

English (US) Japanese

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