Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

Michael Stroh wrote on 19/02/2010 19:19:
> I have a site I'm working on with some data that I want to be
> readable by anyone, but some files that I want to keep hidden from
> outside users. Here is an example of my file structure.
> 
> /products/data1/item_1/data.txt 
 > /products/data2/item_2/data.txt

since no one has suggested it then... if you're on an Apache webserver 
use a .htaccess file in data2 which contains:

Deny from all
Allow from none

That will do the trick and PHP can still fetch the files in data2 and 
serve it to the user.

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Kind regards
Kim Emax - masterminds.dk