I want to be able to prevent people from accessing a file on a server, such as a document if they were to directly link to it via the URL. This is for security purposes so that documents on the site just can't be stumbled upon and downloaded...
What is the best approach for this?
I've tried using the .htaccess to deny access to docs and txts for examples, but you can still download the files it just prevents you from accessing the directory...which isn't what I want to do.
<Files ~ "\.(doc|txt)$">
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>