Hide files on apache webserver

Howto?

[Ruben]

Can someone please explain how to hide some files on my apache webserver if I log in with ftp to the server? So the file in question must be hidden.

[skinter]

The only thing I can think of (and this would require that your client not have an option to show this), would be to add a period (.) before the file. IE, test.txt becomes .test.txt .

This would only work on *NIX OS, and would require the FTP client only show normal files/directories.

Besides, even if by default those files were invisible to the client, there is usually an option to enable viewing them.
Or if you connected through a console, all you'd have to do is 'ls -a'.

[mack]

Do you only want them to be invisible to browsers? If so you coucl burry them bellow your public_html folder. The browser cant go any lower than this location if the servers virtual host has been configured correctly.

Mack.

[marcs]

You could also create a directory inside your web/html directory and chmod it to 700. Place your files in that directory. That should make them inaccesible by web browsers.