Already discussed disabled directories in .htaccess now let do in httpd.conf file. We can block the hidden files and directories in the apache, Open the httpd.conf file and add the below lines,

By default in Apache has set the max connection 256, also if you want to raise your client limit like 512.

If you may get an error after configured SSL or installed ssl module for your Apache server, you had an extra Listen 443 in httpd.conf

Apache, PHP and MySQL is an open source web based software's and the world's most widely used it.

Once you have installed Apache and PHP in your server and the .htaccess redirect is not working properly It was due to the Apache configuration.

To avoid this vulnerability, you need to disabling SSL and using only TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2. Redhat, centos can supports to use SSLv2 or SSLv3 protocols,

Do you want to protect at specific directory with password and redirect any one file use htaccess