Re: Accessing upper directory of public_html directory
| From: | Miguel Cruz | Date: | Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:27:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Accessing upper directory of public_html directory | ||
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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 what you need.
It's possible they put each of their customer in a chroot jail, in which
case - barring gross mistakes on the part of the customer - keeping the
password in a .php file in the docroot is quite secure.
miguel