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Is it possible to prevent an htaccess file from being viewed in this manner:

<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

If you use this in your htaccess file, then a person trying to see that file would get returned (under most server configurations) a 403 error code. You can also set permissions for your htaccess file via CHMOD, which would also prevent this from happening, as an added measure of security: 644.

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