How to serve documents from outside the web root using PHP?

Question

For security I\'m moving a collection of files and folders to outside the web root on an apache server, and then I will serve them dynamically. This seems better than 2 alte

Answer 1

The simplest way I can think of is by using .htaccess files. Assuming your web server is Apache, of course.

You could deny access to any kind(s) of files and/or directories for everyone and allow only for localhost. This way, they will not be served to the public, even if they know the correct path/url, but the server and PHP will be able to serve them.

For different web servers, there must be equivalent solutions. Plus, you can always switch to Apache :-)