[SOLVED] Forbiddent to view .txt

[newbtophp]

I was wondering is their a way i can make the  text.txt file execute when using fopen, but when i visit the file directorally it will display a forbidden message?

 

I've tried chmodding, the forbidden message displays but fopen wont work

 

This is my code:

 

//I want the url to be forbidden, so vistors can't access directaly
$url="http://domain.com/text.txt";
//But the trouble is if i chmod the above file the below code wont work
$fp = fopen($url, "r");

 

All help is apreciated 

[DeanWhitehouse]

Erm, dunno much bout this but either

 

Use .htaccess, try googling?

 

Or

 

Make it password protected and use curl to access it?

 

Just throwing ideas out

[yjim]

apache directives / .htaccess would probably be ur best bet.

 

<Files test.txt>

Deny from all

</Files>

 

[newbtophp]

So I create a .htaccess file in the root.

 

Containing the following code:

 

<Files test.txt>
Deny from all
</Files>

 

What if I wanted to protect a whole folder's content?, do i just replace the file name with the folder path?

[yjim]

<Directory /test>

Deny from all

</Directory>

[newbtophp]

Tested, it makes the folder and protected files forbidden but fopen wont work.

 

Warning: fopen(http://domain.com/text.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /home/me/public_html/test.php on line 9

 

Any other way?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Use a file system path to open the file with. When you use a URL, you are causing your web server/php to make a http request back to itself, just like a browser would, to read the file. Using a URL also takes about 100 times longer to read the file than if you were reading it through the file system.

[newbtophp]

the txt is located externally on another site, so file path wouldnt work