how to avoid the display of inc file

Anon

hi guys
i stuck with the problem.suppose
if i give the x.inc on the url which
shows the contents of the file on the screen
i want to avoid that displaying the file
on browser.
help me iam new to php
regards
frank

Anon

I think that generally people rename the file to x.inc.php which should parse the file as php and not show the contents in the browser. Also, you can set Apache to not allow these files to be viewed, but I can't remember how :-(

HTH,

Jord

Anon

In Apache (1.2 and up, I think), it's really easy, nest the following directives inside a Location or Directory directive:

In iPlanet server (former Netscape Enterprise Server), you can do it with ACLs or with obj.conf, there's no Files-directive to use in .htaccess which could handle the task as easily as in Apache. I'm not sure about these, but you can try them out.

Doing it with a single line in obj.conf: (I have no idea if this works!)
PathCheck fn="deny-existence" path="path/to/the/directory/*.inc"

In an ACL file, it would be: (more likely to work)
acl "*.inc"
deny absolute (all)
user = "anyone";

...and also require a line in the obj.conf :
<Object ppath="*.inc">
PathCheck fn="check-acl"
</Object>

...and the ACL file should be defined in magnus.conf:
ACLFile /path/to/the/file.acl

-j