Restrict WHM/cPanel Access to user folder ~

Question

I want to restrict access to direct folder in WHM, for example I have my website: samplesite.com

But at the same time if I open server-whm.com/~samplesite, I can see the content of my website.

I need to restrict this access to open my website only from the domain.

Answer 1

You can place this rule as first rule in samplesite/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.)?samplesite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F]

This will allow /samplesite/ to be accessed only from samplesite.com

Answer 2

You can disable this functionality from WHM:

1. login as root
2. go to security center > Apache mod-userdir tweak
3. tick the enable mod_userdir protection box