Hiding a folder - From from an extreme newbie

[chesterthebear]

I currently have a shared reseller hosting space on a unix server, and I'm trying to configure member accounts to contain a hidden folder.

Here's the structure I want...

http://www.domain.tld

- member read write access

http://www.domain.tld/scripts

- hidden but contents can be called by other scripts, or by typing the script address into the browser (say,

http://www.domain.tld/scripts/admin.php)

I tried setting permissions for the folder to be hidden to 711 from within a creation php script (php's owner is a different owner to the ftp owner), and that hides all of the files within the folder, but it doesn't hide the folder.

Is it possible to hide the folder completely?

(NOTE: I don't have root access to the server, but am considering switching to a VPS provider).

Thanks
CTB

 

[Annihilannic]

You can hide folders and or files from being listed at the shell prompt using ls by calling them .dirname, however this won't hide them from FTP, and it is trivial to use the ls -a option to list them.

For what you require I'd consider using Apache's facilites for address rewriting, so that the /scripts doesn't actually exist in that location, but when Apache sees that path in the URL it knows where to look for them. The cgi-bin subdirectory is usually configured this way... in fact, that is probably the one you should use for this scenario?

Annihilannic.

 

[chesterthebear]

Thanks Annihilannic,
I guess that means switching to a VPS so that I have access to the root, and to apache's pathing configuration.
Cheers, and much appreciated.
CTB