Codeigniter 4 on shared hosting (NOT CPANEL)

Your welcome, happy coding!

In case your web server gets miss-configured and it dosen't read your .htaccess file or PHP for some reason don't evaluate your files, people can access everything from the url. That's what the extra security provides, you can't access those files under any circumstances from an url (as it's one level up) even if your web-server setting changes.

If everything are configured correctly - your .htaccess will give you the same(-ish) type of protection.