Security of database connection data

[Larryfox]

My website is hosted on a shared host. I currently have my database connection info in a folder one level above public_html. What is the best method to prevent access to this folder?

[not2easy]

You can change the settings for folder permissions (chmod). There are several older discussions about using chmod here: [webmasterworld.com...]

Or there's wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod

[Larryfox]

Thanks for the reply and link. I changed permissions for that folder to 740.

[phranque]

permissions work in concert with ownership.

you can change ownership of an inode (file/directory/etc) using the chown command.

[Larryfox]

Thanks again. I already own all files

[phranque]

740 means anyone in the group also has read access.