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I am new to webhosting and building a very small PHP website as a part of my project. It will not be used for practical purposes for now, but still I want to make sure that it is not TOO insecure.
I have a few files which I don’t want users to access by URL(some text and CSV files) but my PHP code should be able to use them. How can I achieve something like this?
If you don’t want them accessed by the web server but just by PHP, the best thing is to just keep them outside the webroot.
You can block access using .htaccess, but that will prevent you from using pretty much any other web server than Apache, and it adds un-necessary overhead (and a possible vulnerability if the .htaccess is accidentally removed or configured wrong)