Posted by veg_all on 09/26/06 00:26

i am writing a simple script that needs to read data from a file, say
foo.txt. When the script is called the server is run as 'nobody'. So I
chmod foo.txt to 606 so that nobody can read and write to it. The
problem with 606 is that now anyone can simply type in the url to
foot.txt, i.e http://mysite.com/foo.txt and read its contents. How can
I prevent this? I suppose I could raname it to foo.php instead?

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