Best Practices for Deploying Your Scripts

When deploying PHP scripts on production servers, follow these foundational security and performance guidelines:

• Environment Secrets: Keep sensitive API keys and database credentials in .env or outside the public web root.
• SSL/TLS Encryption: Always enforce HTTPS using Let's Encrypt or Cloudflare.
• File Permissions: Set directories to 755 and PHP source files to 644 to prevent unauthorized execution.
• Database Security: Always use prepared statements with PDO and avoid running queries as MySQL root user.