拒绝直接访问，但允许fopen

Question

i am trying to read txt file from my webhost using

echo file_get_contents("http://domain/text.txt");

Or

$fh =  fopen("http://domain/text.txt", "r");
while (!feof($fh)) {
   $line = fgets($fh);
   echo $line;
}

but i wanted to protect this text file from direct access

using .htaccess

deny from all

but i couldnt read text file anymore after denied direct access :(

also i dont want use all from ip

so i am asking if there any solution to read the text file with php and deny direct access to the file

Thank You

Answer 1

The safest way is to put the files you want kept to yourself outside of the web root directory. This works because the web server follows local file system privileges, not its own privileges.