'How to deny access to specific document types in LAMP

I am conducting a test run of my concept control web panel project on Centos7 using LAMP. However, I am experiencing a bit of a problem. When I visit http://mywebsiteurl.com/users.db rather than say forbidden or display a blank page. The browser auto downloads the .db file. How can I prevent this from happening. Is there a way to restrict access to files with a particular extension?

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Solution 1:[1]

Okay so after hours of research, trial and error. I somehow managed to fix my problem using the solution found here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/5605110/18351396

I just changed the file extension to .db to suit my case.

Thanks everyone, especially CBroe.

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Solution 1 Nathan Alden

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