Re: [PHP] Accessing upper directory of public_html directory

2002-07-25 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Justin French wrote: If your ISP doesn't allow you to use .htaccess files in this way, AND can't provide you with a directory outside the document root for placing sensitive files, then I'd recommend switching hosts, because they clearly don't have an understanding of

[PHP] Accessing upper directory of public_html directory

2002-07-23 Thread Sailom
I bought a web host service from a company named easyspace.com. I have tried to ask them this question many times but until now there is no response from them at all. According to the security issue of placing password in script I brought up days ago, some one on this news group suggested me

RE: [PHP] Accessing upper directory of public_html directory

2002-07-23 Thread John Holmes
I bought a web host service from a company named easyspace.com. I have tried to ask them this question many times but until now there is no response from them at all. According to the security issue of placing password in script I brought up days ago, some one on this news group

Re: [PHP] Accessing upper directory of public_html directory

2002-07-23 Thread Justin French
If they don't allow you to store the file outside (above) the public_html directory, then you may want to try the following: - name your password files with .inc extension - a .htaccess file (assuming apache) to Deny all requests for *.inc files from the server This means that any file you name