Currently, every system I've set up is small enough so as to have the web
server and the database server on the same machine. Consequently, loss of
security due to packet-sniffing can be completely controlled by using,
say, apache-ssl, since communications between the web server and the
database server take place inside a single machine.
It just occurred to me, however, that this becomes a much bigger problem
when the web server(s) and the database server are running on different
machines. Does anyone know if there is a canonical way of securing the
data connection between the web and database servers or is this usually
handled by simply putting the database server behind a firewall?
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