Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
This is my directory structure:
-st.ambulance
—public_html
—resources
My document root is public_html. I have a script in resources that I need to execute securely (meaning: normal users shouldn’t be able to execute it). How would I do this?
Normal users already won’t be able to execute it if they can’t get to it in their browser. If it’s not in your document root, they shouldn’t be able to get to it. So, it’s already safe, unless one of the scripts in your document root is including it, or your site gets hacked.
As far as executing the script yourself, find out whether it should be run from the command line or as a web page. If it can run at the command line, just ssh in and run it. If it needs to be run as a web page, have your web server serve the resources directory to an admin (sub)domain, secured by https, and password protect it with something like basic http authentication.