.htaccess deny all in plugins folder

[internet54]

With deny all in my plugins folder, my plugins were not working with the latest beta.
Anyone else with that issue?

Remove .htaccess and it works fine.

[ccagle8]

maybe it depends on how you are calling the pages from in there. Download my vcard plugin and see how I do it. I save my data files to /data/other/

[internet54]

^ Right, but for the sake of keeping things easy, I have 2 plugins installed.
I have a gallery which stores all necessary include calls in the plugins/pluginname folder.
Then I have that plugin call the images in /data/gallery/.
Even if everything was stored in the plugin folder, it would not run because the htaccess file does not allow access to the included files in the plugins/pluginname/ folder.

[Sanddorn]

/data is nice for saving data, but where to place images, .js and .css Files that i need for my plugin? /theme/plugins?

[Zegnåt]

The argument is that /data/ is not the best place to write things as plugin settings, because it might get lost between updates. So the idea is to keep everything within /plugins/.

Images might be a whole different issue. It might be right to put those in a seperate folder per theme (/theme/Default_Simple/my_plugin_name/image.png &c), if you want your plugin to be customised depending on a theme. If you always want it to be the same, I’d go for putting all those files in /plugins/ (in a subfolder of course) as well.

[Sanddorn]

But with "deny all" the browser can not load stuff from /plugins/myplugin. I need an "allow all" place for theming my plugin and storing JavaScript files. confused

[Zegnåt]

Please search the forums a bit, you’ll find there has been a discussion going on about whitelisting files in /plugins/. I think that topic will get you up to speed.

[nexflo]

easy solution is simple putting another htaccess in the plugin directory of your plugin...

i.e.

if your plugin is in /plugins/plugin1.php

simple add another folder plugin1 and drop an .htaccess with
Allow from all

Important: Dont change the .htaccess in the root plugins folder...

[Sanddorn]

Thanks, that works.