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

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

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 sug