Secure way to store files in web server?

Question

I want my files to be secure in my web server. Only authenticated users to access those files should be able to access those files. I thought of storing files in database as

Answer 1

Storing files in DB is very bad practice. Very good practice to store only information about file. Name, extension. Files save on server like $id.$ext. It will be a good architecture. And when user download file, he take file with name in DB.
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