Disabling serving PHP files from a folder in .htaccess

Question

I have a directory on server, from which I only want .JPG files to be served by apache - and apache should deny requests for php, php3, php5 etc files.

What should I write in .htaccess?

I have tried following, first two are giving 500 internal error, third one is not working at all!

 <Directory full-path-to/USERS>
 <FilesMatch "\.(php3?|phtml)$">  
     Order Deny,Allow
     Deny from All
 </FilesMatch>

<LocationMatch "/USERS/.*\.(php3?|phtml)$">
     Order Deny,Allow
     Deny from All
</LocationMatch>


php_flag engine off

Regards,

Answer 1

How about some mod_rewrite?

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(\.jpg|\.jpeg)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]

This would allow only .jpg or .jpeg files to be served, and everything else would get a 403 forbidden.