.htaccess deny from all

Question

I have copied one of my old applications and renamed it to New_application. I want to access .htaccess file that is inside the New_application folder. When I opened it with

Answer 1

This syntax has changed with the newer Apache HTTPd server, please see upgrade to apache 2.4 doc for full details.

2.2 configuration syntax was

Order deny,allow
Deny from all

2.4 configuration now is

Require all denied

Thus, this 2.2 syntax

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 127.0.0.1

Would ne now written

Require local