Thanks for your detailed answers pghotariu & rooster (Russ),

I have a managed server for my business projects, but for a more or
less private page I have a shared host, too. They use mod_php5 +
chroot jails + open_basedir and no ssh. So this is ok with me. The
mentioned performance issues seems to be not symfony-related.
My deployment isn't critical, since it's a small page, with decent
updates! :)

Thank you!!


On 29 Mai, 12:46, "rooster (Russ)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The biggest issue is security... You have a cache folder with 777
> permissions which anyone else on the same host can write to and
> execute arbitrary PHP code.
>
> Some shared hosting providers get round this by using chroot jails and
> a number of other tricks, but you need to make sure the one you are
> using also takes these measures.
>
> Try navigating to /home and seeing if you can list the other home
> folders... Then think about guessing /home/somewebsitename/cache/
> frontend/.../etc
>
> Also if the cache folders not 777 but are owned by the "web" user
> (normally www-data or something like that) then are the other users of
> the shared system using the same user? I could write a php script on
> my site which runs as the same user and uses file_put_contents to
> throw php files into your cache folder (if I can guess the path) since
> my script also runs as www-data.
>
> There are a bunch of posts about this stuff, have a look around - best
> to find a hosting provider that gives you a virtual server so you are
> isolated from the other users, or at least takes measures to protect
> you from the kind of issues above (by giving each user their own
> Apache user/process for example).
>
> Russ.
>
> On May 29, 9:46 am, comb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
>
> > Obiously it takes some tweaks to run symfony 1.4 on a shared host, but
> > what's wrong with it?
> > One can add a .htaccess files to prevent unauthorized access for the
> > hole symfony project folder, another one for the web/-directory to
> > enable normal access there and then pointhttp://domain.comtothe
> > web/-dir.
> > Why not?
>
> > The only thing I can imagine is that the uploads mostly have to be
> > done by hand, but that's ok with me since it'll usually be a small
> > project if it runs on a shared host.
>
>

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