How to block direct access to .html files? (.htaccess)

Question

I want to block direct access to multiple files, but being able to access in index.html

For example: I want to block access to all the files located in " http://www.mywebsite.com/pages " such as " contact.html " " about.html "... and only be accessed by "index.html" ( http://www.mywebsite.com/ )

and if possible, to block access to images folder ( http://www.mywebsite.com/images ) but still being able to use the images in "index.html"

I want to redirect to home page ( index.html ) or send a 404 status code when these files are directly accessed... I have a 404 not found page called " notfound.html "

Files:

index.html

pages (contains few .html pages used as links in index.html ) images (contains images used in index.html )

Answer 1

Try this : redirect on index.html instead of notfound.html

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html
RewriteRule .*\.html$ index.html
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html
RewriteRule (.*)\.html$ $1.html

In images directory in other .htaccess :

options -indexes
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.mywebsite.com/index.html

But why do you wish to do this? ;)