Magento : Unprotected development files? patch

Question

How to apply "Unprotected development files?" patch in magento EE 1.14.2.3.In my mage report it shows Unprotected development files? as medium so i want to apply this.Please explain I found need to give permissions to dev folder and .htaccess file.How to do it please

Answer 1

The best option is to delete the dev directory from the server and exclude it from your deployment.

Otherwise you have the same options like with the downloader directory, as described here: Recommended method to protect /downloader?