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I am using another tool to upload PDF's.  That works no problem, and it does rename them too to something random.

This directory is located in my public_html folder.... so it is outside images and media. (public_html/fileshere for example)

In this specific directory, how do I stop direct download of the PDF?  I am trying to limit the download of these files from within the front end joomla login of a user.

I'm sorry if this has been asked 1000 times, I just can't figure it out.

I think you can accomplish that by copying the .htaccess file from the /administrator/components/com_akeeba/backup folder to your /fileshere folder.

That .htaccess file limits access to the folder to localhost.  That way, you can download the files through the web server but not directly via URL.  We want to do the same thing with the default output folder.

This did not work.  And I don't use Akeba backup, this was Admin Tools so the directory listing did not match.

I agree the .htaccess needs to be modified, and I use to do it manually before Admin Tools.  Just can't figure out how to allow/not allow PDFs in specific directories.

I apologize, I should have noticed that you didn't have Akeeba Backup.  Here's the contents of that file:

<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
  <RequireAll>
    Require all denied
  </RequireAll>
</IfModule>

You don't put the code in your main .htaccess file, make a new .htaccess in the folder you want to restrict.