Cannot access subdirectory, 403 forbidden

I am wanting to create a seperate directory for my analytics program to function.

My website is www.loosebruce.co.uk and I want my directory to be accessible as

www.loosebruce.co.uk/analytics

The same way phpmyadmin is accessible with /phpmyadmin

I added the following line to .htaccess file but it is not letting me get into that folder

RewriteRule src/analytics - [PT]

` # follow symlinks & disallow directory listing # note: your hosting company might not allow these directives to be set. In that case, # you should either find another hosting company (advised) or remove the line below. Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes DirectorySlash Off

# file etags (used when comparing local cached file to server file)
FileETag MTime Size

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    # nice urls
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    # forbidden folders
    RewriteRule .*\.gitignore - [F]
    RewriteRule composer\.json - [F]
    RewriteRule composer\.lock - [F]
    RewriteRule .*\.md - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Frontend/Cache/CachedTemplates - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Frontend/Cache/CompiledTemplates - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Frontend/Cache/Config - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Frontend/Cache/Locale/.*\.php - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Frontend/Cache/Logs - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Frontend/Cache/Navigation/.*\.php - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Frontend/Cache/Search - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Backend/Cache/CompiledTemplates - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Backend/Cache/Config - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Backend/Cache/Cronjobs - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Backend/Cache/Locale/.*\.php - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Backend/Cache/Logs - [F]
    RewriteRule src/Backend/Cache/Navigation - [F]
    RewriteRule src/analytics - [PT]

    #Rewriterule ^analytics/.*$ - [PT]
    #RewriteRule  ^$ /analytics/    [L]
    #RewriteRule  (.*) /analytics/$1 [L]

    # one url to rule them all
    # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.<domain>\.be [NC]
    # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !.*\.dev [NC]
    # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.<domain>.be/$1 [R=301,L]

    # src dir should pass via the front controller
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(src|src\/)$
    RewriteRule . /index.php [NC,L]

    # handle urls
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . index.php [NC,L]

    # set environment variable to let PHP know that urls are being rewritten
    RewriteRule .* - [E=MOD_REWRITE:1]
</IfModule>

# file caching in browser
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    <FilesMatch "\.(ico|gif|jpe?g|png|svg|svgz|js|css|swf|ttf|otf|woff|eot)$">
        ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
    </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# gzip on Apache 2
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript application/xhtml+xml application/javascript

    # these browsers do not support deflate
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
    BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

    SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force
</IfModule>

# gzip on Apache 1
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
    mod_gzip_on Yes

    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/javascript$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/xhtml+xml$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/xml$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/css$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/html$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/javascript$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/plain$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/xml$
    mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/

    # browser issues
    mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-agent: Mozilla/4.0[678]"
</IfModule>

However I am still denied access, how do I fix this?

I tried to create a folder "test" with an index.html file inside and got a partial success with this:

# nice urls
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(test)/?$ - [L]

The problem is that I can visit www.website.com/test/ but it doesn't work if you forget the slash at the end of the url. Normally the /?$ takes care of this, but it doesn't seem to work.

Hey Jesse,

I decided to upgrade to Apache 2.4 and use its new config features.

I created a config called analytics like so

analytics config file allows redirection of /analytics

Alias /analytics /var/analytics

<directory> Options FollowSymLinks</directory>

Disallow web access to directories that don't need it

<directory /> Require all granted `

This now works when navigating /analytics

Forum

Cannot access subdirectory, 403 forbidden

analytics config file allows redirection of /analytics

Disallow web access to directories that don't need it

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