[Konig]

You may want to add an .htaccess file like this to the directory as well to prevent people from accessing vital areas of your store. Good luck!

# .htaccess by Konig (06/07/2004) 

Options -Indexes 
DirectoryIndex index.php 

# block all files in uppercase letters (i.e. VERSION) 
RedirectMatch gone ^/[A-Z].+$ 

# block all smarty templates 
RedirectMatch gone ^/.*\.tpl$ 

# block all .php and .pl files in the root directory except for index.php 
# remove |pl if you want to execute patch.pl, otherwise, leave alone 
# example: install.php, config.php just in case if there is an exploit someday 
# which can reveal the source code of php files 
RedirectMatch gone ^/[^/]*([^index])\.(php|pl)$ 

# block the entire log directory 
ReDirect gone /log 

# block all .log (log files), .sql (sql dump/export) and .conf (config files) files 
# in case some day these files move to another directory 
RedirectMatch gone ^.*\.(sql|log|conf)$ 

# block access to the 'Smarty-*' directory 
RedirectMatch gone ^.*Smarty.*$ 

# block access to /upgrade 
Redirect gone /upgrade 

# block access to /skin1_original 
Redirect gone /skin1_original 

# block access to the /sql directory 
Redirect gone /sql 

# block access to the /shipping directory 
Redirect gone /shipping 

# block access to the pgp directories 
Redirect gone /.pgp 
Redirect gone /.pgp.def