RE: [PHP] flat file db

put in somewhere outside the document root, as long as your apache isn't "jailed" php can read your flat file wherever you put it, as long as its owned by the webserver user - Russ -----Original Message----- From: Jon Yaggie [mailto:dmsales@design-monster.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:18 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] flat file db i am setting up a flat file database. i want to restrict acess so that users cant view it intentionally or accidentally. i am pretty positive this is a job for htaccess but i am pretty clueless in this area(one of many areas i am clueless in) anyone got a suggestion on a tutorial or another way to protect the db other than htaccess? Thank You, Jon Yaggie www.design-monster.com And they were singing . . . '100 little bugs in the code 100 bugs in the code fix one bug, compile it again 101 little bugs in the code 101 little bugs in the code . . .' And it continued until they reached 0