Re: Making Dir writable by WordPress

2012-08-09 Thread Lisa Kachold
Postscript: You can use HTEXPLOIT to bypass any .htaccess permissions: HTExploit is an open-source tool written in Python that exploits a weakness in the way that htaccess files can be configured to protect a web directory with an authentication process. By using this tool anyone would be able

Re: Making Dir writable by WordPress

2012-08-09 Thread Eric Cope
Not sure of the other security issues, but you can run suPHP which runs PHP as a normal user, which then you can assign tight permissions... Eric On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: Postscript: You can use HTEXPLOIT to bypass any .htaccess permissions:

Making Dir writable by WordPress

2012-08-08 Thread keith smith
Hi, I need to make a directory writable so WordPress can upload images to the directory.  I'm thinking I need to change the group ownership of the directory to Apache with the user remaining the same.  In the past I've change the group and ownership to Apache and was blocked from FTP access

Re: Making Dir writable by WordPress

2012-08-08 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Keith, On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:50 AM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I need to make a directory writable so WordPress can upload images to the directory. I'm thinking I need to change the group ownership of the directory to Apache with the user remaining the same. In