[Resolved] Directory/File Permissions

[ScubaKing22]

Got a question regarding directory/file permissions. My host is running Linux, so I know that file's are given different permissions based on some sort of number. Thing is, I don't know which number does what. What I'd like to do is have a directory that PHP can upload to and read files from, but not the outside world. So lets say I have a directory "files". I'd like to have PHP upload/read from "files", but if someone typed in www.site.com/files it wouldn't allow them access. Do I need to use some sort of .htaccess? Any help is greatly appreciated 😉

[TheDefender]

Not to oversimplify things, but just drop an index.html file in there that says:

"You don't have permission to access this directory."

Or if your server is setup to be able to use index.php as the default file, then drop that in there and have a header() redirect the visitor to a different location.

[ScubaKing22]

See that's not really what I'm after. I'm sort of doing a download count type thing, so I don't want someone to come in and download directly. I'd like it to be passed through the PHP script which would then use a combination of header()'s to allow the file download. Any more ideas?😕

[ScubaKing22]

Well after a bit of just trying different combinations I found out that a permission of 711 allows PHP to read the file and prompt the user to download it, but the user can't directly access the file on the server 🙂