On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jens Winter<ice...@uni-paderborn.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder which rules are used to decide if a file is processed by PHP. For > example x.php, x.php.bak and x.php.x~ are all processed, but x.php~ is not > (at least by default). This could be an issue if you use vim or similar > editors to edit the config files of e.g. WordPress or MediaWiki (containing > DB passwords) directly in the server directory (which you shouldn't do, but > we all know that some people will do anyway...). > > So if so many filename schemes result in processing the PHP code, why are > these critical files delivered as source code (again talking about default > behavior)?
Directives that accept "filename extensions" treat "foo.bar.baz" as having two distinct extensions. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com
