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by **PostBot** on Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:12 am

This tutorial moved here: how to protect forum template

by **LordOfCarma** on Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:17 pm

hey thats really cool!

thank you a lot for that!

by **cavallino** on Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:30 pm

[quote user="CyberAlien" post="37519"]Because of phpBB template structure everyone can easily download tpl files from your website. So it can be used to steal commercial or custom templates.

For phpBB 2.0 to protect your templates you need to create file .htaccess in directory "templates" and put this code in it:

Code: Select all: <Files ~ "\.tpl$"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </Files>

[/quote]

Hello, I wanted to protect my template forum (morpheusX) so i followed your suggestion and created this .htaccess file and i put it in templates directory. Well, now when i open my forum it looks weird, i can see only text but no images, no graphics, it doesnt load the template anymore...!
Where am i wrong?
Thanks

by **Thatbitextra** on Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:02 am

It sounds like you protected the CSS, so it may be more complicated to do it with MorpheusX.

by **UseLess** on Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:29 am

Greetings,

I don't know what's wrong but it does work with MorpheusX...

http://forum.custombuiltsoftware.co.uk/ ... x_body.tpl

try clicking that link... you'll be told...'You don't have permission to access /templates/MorpheusX/index_body.tpl on this server'

by **cavallino** on Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:05 am

[quote user="UseLess" post="48393"]Greetings,

I don't know what's wrong but it does work with MorpheusX...

http://forum.custombuiltsoftware.co.uk/ ... x_body.tpl

try clicking that link... you'll be told...'You don't have permission to access /templates/MorpheusX/index_body.tpl on this server'[/quote]

Yes, from the link you posted it seems that its working properly.. can you tell me which permission you gave to the .htaccess file? I gave it 644.... The file as i reported is inside the folder templates, it is the only file there...then there are the subfolders MorpheusX and subSilver.
Inside the .htaccess file there is only:

<Files ~ "\.tpl$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>

by **UseLess** on Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:10 am

Greetings,

Try 755

by **cavallino** on Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:06 am

Thanks UseLess but the trick unfortunately still doesn't work for me...
probably it is something in my Apache configuration, i'm using a virtual host for the board, maybe i have to specify some options in the httpd.conf file...

Anyway i give up

by **UseLess** on Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:48 am

Greetings,

You using a Linux or Windows host for Apache?

If Windows you may want to check the permissions for IUSR_<machine name>

by **webnoobie** on Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:40 pm

Hey,

When I tried that, it did not allow any images to appear. :cry:

by **MrBass** on Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:02 pm

Can't get it to work on my site either.

by **PostBot** on Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:19 pm

Then you ether put wrong code in .htaccess or your server doesn't support htaccess files.

by **MrBass** on Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:20 pm

Must be the latter as I don't make mistakes!

by **katiedrop** on Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:29 pm

Just a question,

Would that work in any forum software?

by **DooBDee** on Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:25 pm

Will work on any piece of code in any directory for any file your decide to protect

Providing you run Apache on web server

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