Deny access permissions - apache, linux

Question

How can I deny access permission to an entire folder except one file? For example, my DocumentRoot is "/var/www/html" and there I have a folder called example . In there, there are many files and one of them is index.php . So I want to give access permission only to this file, and deny access permissions to the other files in that folder.

Answer 1

did you try something like this into your apache configuration (server httpd.conf or .htaccess file) ?

<Directory "/var/www/html/example">
   <FilesMatch index.php*> 
      Order allow,deny 
      Allow from all 
   </FilesMatch> 
   Order deny,allow 
   Deny from all 
</Directory>