you could put your php scipts that contain senstive stuff like database logins and
passwords etc in a dir thats not under the public_html dir (or whatever yours is) i.e.
under your root you might have 'public_html', 'tmp', 'cgi-bin' etc. create a dir and
call it what you like ('php' would do) and put your scripts in there. when you need to
use them on a page put this code in
<?
ini_set('include_path', '../php');
require 'your_php_script.php';
?>
../ tells the script to look up a dir so ../../ would go up 2 etc
hope this makes sense
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Leendert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 October 2002 10:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: The noob is back! About this directory security...
"Brett Lathrope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> I want to thank everyone that helped me with phpMyAdmin suggestions. It
> took me 6 and a half hours to get it to work, but I got it to work! LOL!
> You guys have no idea how confusing the configuration file is for some
that
> is new to php and doesn't know unix.
>
> And that leads me to my question.
>
> I have a directory where I put phpMyAdmin, how to I keep everyone out but
> me...yet still be able to access it myself.
You can use .htaccess to secure your directory with a user/pass.
http://www.google.com/search?q=htaccess+tutorial
>
> Also, when I create my PHP scripts to access this database (which I've
> actually done) I want to put them in a directory that is safe from prying
> eyes but usable by those coming in through the browser (if that makes
> sense).
Not quite sure what you mean. If you mean people aren't allowed to read your
code: surprise, that's not possible given your PHP configuration is set up
correctly.
>
> You guys keep talking about this chmod command...but I'm using WS-FTP LE
and
> all I get is Owner, Group, and Other with the options to set Read, Write
and
> Execute for each.
That is pretty much what chmod does. I think it will become clearer if you
read some about chmod.
http://www.google.com/search?q=chmod+tutorial
>
> And I've read that I should be 2 directories down?
Don't believe everything they tell you. (More seriously: I have no idea what
you mean by that.)
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> Brett
>
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