Question

Supposed the page is example.com/blog/data.php. I am using file_get_contents to get the content in another script page. Now, i want to:

1. Forbid google search to crawl and index the data.php page.
2. Forbid the visitor to access it

Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

You can redirect to another page if the request url is example.com/blog/data.php, but a far easier and more logical solution would be to move the file out of your web-root.

Edit: If you really want to keep the file inside the web-root, you can use something like this at the top of the script that you don’t want to access directly:

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] === $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])
{
  header('Location: /');    // redirect to home page
}

However, this will probably not work in combination with file_get_contents (you need to remove these lines from the result), you could include the file instead.