This is easy, doesn't require a server reload and you should see the results pretty quickly. As mentioned above, if security of your content is an issue, though, you should avoid using this technique.
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You can also mitigate the risk by disabling permissions check only
for some static resource like css,js and fonts files.
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For that is required to load header module
in apache (check with a2enmod in your favorite root terminal)<br/>
add theses line after RewriteBase /courses/:
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<IfModulemod_headers.c>
# all file name ended with these extensions names will bypass the permission check (and also served by the browser cache at the next request)