拒绝访问除服务器本身之外的.php文件

Question

How can I write a .htaccess script that prevents the user from running .php files in a certain directory and it's child directories?

I would need to be able to include the php file from the servers index.php or other files though, basically I want to enable to the server to to include the php files from a certain directory but, if the user were to type in the specific URL, it would deny access.

Answer 1

This could do the trick

<FilesMatch "\.php$">
   Deny from all
<FilesMatch>

Also, see the answers to this question: Deny direct access to all .php files except index.php