php - Restrict Index File In Machine

Question

I have a question about file permission in linux .

Let's suppose I have hosted a index.php file in my machine. The file can be read in browser.But I wanted to make it such like it should be viewable in browser but should not accessible from my machine. Is there any way so I can restrict someone to access it from my machine folder but can be read via browser?

P.S:- He/She has a low privileged shell.

Answer 1

The webserver runs as some user, for example apache. Make the file owned by apache with permission 600. This makes it available to user apache and no-one else.