I was under the impression I could use a .htaccess file to block IPs to my laravel project app/views/users/ dir but it doesn't look like its being read. However if I use the directives inside the public/.htaccess file it works.
I'm not familiar with mod_rewrite so I'm unsure how to block access to app/views/users from public/.htaccess. Whats the best way to get around this?