ROB — Sat, 29 Jun 2002 01:07:08 +0000

if you name it .htwhatever it will not be web accessible at all, apache will not serve it (assuming your server is running apache)

zollet — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:11:59 +0000

You're welcome. I'm glad I could help.

Works like a charm

Abhishek Reddy — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:21:29 +0000

Thanks mate.

zollet — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:30:04 +0000

Another thing you could do is to name it filename.cgi or filename.pl. This way, if someone tries to load it, it will get a 500 error.

Abhishek Reddy — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:54:10 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I am already using the .name thing... and I don't have access to anything outside the public dir. Oh well.

zollet — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:32:39 +0000

The safest way is to place this file _outside_ of your public_html directory. A second way would be to rename this file to ".whatever" (filename starts with a dot). This will make it not show in the directory listing, but still available if someone knows it exists and types in the full path (i.e. domain.com/.whatever).