You could use JavaScript, I think something like the following should work:
if (top != self) {
// you're in an iframe, or similar.
}
Link to original, meyerweb, article.
Edited with regard to the question’s update:
Addition : I’m especially interested if there would be a method to test this on the server rather than in the client with Javascript
This can’t be ‘checked’ on the server side, but, you could use the X-Frame-Options
header, there are two options:
DENY
: prevents the resource being framed anywhere (assuming the browser supports the X-Frame-Options header, anyway), orSAMEORIGIN
: which allows framing of the resource only by pages from the same-domain, much like JavaScript’s same-origin policy.
To use this, you’d need to configure your server to send the relevant header; though specific advice for that can’t be given without knowing what server you’re running; though the linked article at the Mozilla Developer Center does show the Apache option.