Blocking subdirectories by name

Greetings!

Can I block access to all subdirectories by name in a root .htaccess
file? I want to block access to all ".svn" folders. I already added
"IndexIgnore .svn" but that doesn't quite do the trick.

Thanks in advance!

-Matt

Greetings!

It worked thanks! I modified it a bit though and took out the end of
line anchor.

<Directory ~ "^.*\.svn">
Order allow, deny
Deny from all
</Directory>

-Matt

On Jan 22, 9:57 pm, Davide Bianchi <davideyeahs...@onlyforfun.net>
wrote:
> On 2007-01-22, Matthew Hauck <mattha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can I block access to all subdirectories by name in a root .htaccess
> > file?
> > I want to block access to all ".svn" folders. I already addedSomething like
>
> <Directory ~ "^.*\.svn$">
> Order allow, deny
> Deny from all
> </Directory>
>
> See also the documentation for DirectoryMatch
>
> Davide
>
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