Question

I have created a PHP script that takes a large html file and, using DOMDocument, chops it up into smaller files. To save on script memory and without having to use a DB, I’ve done this sequentially and saved them as hundreds of html files. My question is, how do I make sure these files cannot be visible to the outside world, but still retain the ability to use them as resources for future processing (piece together various files and display them on a page)?

I’m using Amazon EC2 – Centos 6/Apache.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Put them on a directory which isn’t a subdirectory of your web root directory (i.e. the publicly opened directory).

Another possible approach (if you are using Apache), is to use an .htaccess file to Deny from all in a directory.