Lock Your Wordpress Sites Index File

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As we know wordpress is very popular CMS but its also difficult to save your wordpress site from hacking.I am sharing now a effective tips to make strong your wordpress security.How to lock your wprdpress index file? Look here

http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-includes/

http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/

we cant see the index file of wordpress and it strengthen your wordpress security

Now see here

http://www.alokborsho.com/wp-includes/

http://www.alokborsho.com/wp-content/uploads/

We can access wp index file and this sites are vulnerable to hack

Now question how to off your index ?

Login to your hosting cpanel and paste the code in your .htaccess file then save the file then if you or anybody want to access your wp index file this will show   403 Permission Denied you do not have permission for this request /wp-content/uploads/

# BEGIN WordPress<br /> Options -Indexes<br /> <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c><br /> RewriteEngine On<br /> RewriteBase /<br /> RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]<br /> RewriteRule ^login/?$ /wp-login.php [QSA,L]<br /> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br /> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br /> RewriteRule . /index.php [L]<br /> </IfModule><br /> <br /> # END WordPress<br /> <br />

Disclaimer: Before pasting code take the backup of your .htaccess file