.htaccess deny access to specific files? more than one

Question

I am able to disable access to a file with .htaccess, but I don't know how to disallow multiple files to be viewed (directly, not from includes)

They are .php so I can't disable a file type (like the only tutorials online say..)

<FILES ... ? 

</FILES>

Or something.. For example "home.php, file.php , test.php" how do I disallow access to all three files with that tag? or similar, help please!

Answer 1

If you want to exclude files based on regular expressions, you could use FilesMatch instead of Files, eg:

<FilesMatch ^((home|test|file)\.php$|mysecretfolder|asecretpicture\.jpe?g)$>
...
</FilesMatch>

Answer 2

Looks like you have to exclude those files one by one:

<files home.php>
Deny/Allow/Whatever
</files>
<files file.php>
...

You can use *.gif in <files> or something* , but as home.php, file.php and test.php can't really be grouped with a "*", this is probably the only way to go.

Answer 3

since apache 2.4

<FilesMatch "\.htaccess|config\.php">

    Require all denied

</FilesMatch>

instead of

<FilesMatch "\.htaccess|config\.php">

    Order allow,deny 
    Deny from all 

</FilesMatch>