title: How do I block /plugins/ folder from public access?
body: <p>How do I protect "plugin" folder via .htaccess?</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.example.com/plugins/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/plugins/</a> my files are here</p>
  
  <p>I want to prevent visitors from accessing to <code>/plugins/</code> folder, but when I tried blocking it using code below, my files inside this folder stopped working. Please pardon my grammatical errors. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*(plugins).* [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  </code></pre>