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Even if you are using an IPN system to protect your digital products, you should also employ other safeguards as well.  Protecting your download & thank you page folders is as easy as password protecting them through your cpanel at your webhost.

If thats too difficult, or to inconvenient because of having to access it for the items inside (like when others order your products & have to download them & you can’t figure out how to write the proper codes inside of a script for them to be able to access it), or any one of a number of other reasons that make it unrealistic to actually password protect them, at a minimum, here’s an easy solution:  just place a blank index.html file inside those folders.  You don’t even need any words at all within it.  What this will do, is if someone types in via their browser bar the url to the folders where you don’t really want people snooping in, it simply displays a blank page.  They can’t see anything that is inside these folders.  Perhaps they will think its an error of some kind & just leave.

You’ve got time and money spent into making your website and all the contents within, so be sure to take the time to protect everything as well.  It’s not real hard protecting your download & thank you page folders, but it is a necessary step to insure your work is not for nothing.