the php fopen fails to open a file for reading, if the file permission is 440. I don’t want to give 444 permission to the file, so that it can’t be accessed directly through a URL.
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the php fopen fails to open a file for reading, if the file permission is 440. I don’t want to give 444 permission to the file, so that it can’t be accessed directly through a URL.
You can do as tj111 suggests, block it with .htaccess.
But even better idea is to put it outside of the www root.
For example if your PHP files are in /home/user/public_html/, put your files with limited access e.g. in /home/user/includes giving them 644 (
rw-r--r--). You can limit directory permissions to 711 (rwx--x--x), so no one but you can see what files are there. This doesn’t prevent you though, from reading or including these files using PHP.