Protecting PHP Includes. In order to create a PHP file that is inaccessible from the WWW, please follow these instructions.
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[*]Create a directory within your public_html directory
[*]Password protect the directory
[*]Add the files that you do not want to be accessible to the protected directory. As PHP accesses files internally, it ignores password protected directories. [*]However, if anyone tried to directly access those files from an external source, they would be prompted for a username and password.
An alternative method would be to store the file outside of the web root. If you have a script located at:
