However, if you need to disable PHP execution for a particular directory, you will need to create the .htaccess file.
Step::1 Login to your cPanel and click on File Manager section
Step::2 Here go inside public_html and open the directory where you want to disable PHP execution
Step::3 Once you are inside that directory, click on the + File icon at the to left corner of the screen.
Step::4 Create a .htaccess file (You can ignore this step if .htaccess file is already present in the directory)
Step::5 Now right click over the htaccess file and choose the Edit option
Step::6 Next you are going to see a pop-up. Click Edit and a new tab will open
Step::7 Add the code given below
<Files *.php> Order deny,Allow Deny from all </Files>
Step::8 Click on Save Changes tab.
In this way you could protect php execution in a specific directory.
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