WooCommerce downloads folder open to the world? Check if your vhost is run on nginx.
Today I discovered that on some hosts (like my favorite, Cloudways) when a server is running nginx, static files like PDFs, images, ZIPs, etc, are served via nginx instead of Apache. Since .htaccess files are Apache instructions, nginx bypasses those directives and continues to host...
17 March, 2018
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