How to prevent PHP script from running in Apache

Answer:

If you have a PHP script and want it run under in command line only, not in the web server context, you can use the following method.

<?php

if ( php_sapi_name() != "cli" ) {
    print "This script must be run from the command line\n";
    exit();
}

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