Question

I have this script.php file which i want to run as a cron job on my linux/apache server.

However, i do not want public to access http://www.mycompanyname.com/script.php and also run the script concurrently.

How can we prevent that? How can we restrict the script to the server’s access only?
Is it using chmod or setting something inside .htaccess file, something along the line?

Any advice ?

Answer 1

You probably have something like a public_html directory, in which you have all the phps. Just put it outside of that directory.