How do I protect a shell script from being downloaded?

Question

I have a shell script which is called by a cron job. I don't want it to be downloaded via a browser. I have tried the filesmatch htaccess directive but that doesn't seem to stop me calling the url of the file and downloading it.

How can I protect it?

Answer 1

Move it out of the directory tree the webserver is serving from. If it's not being invoked by the webserver, it doesn't need to be there.

Answer 2

Just don't put it under your webroot.

Answer 3

move it outside of a web accessible dir