[FX.php List] phpinfo() sitting around? (WAS: Capturing IP for a choice calc)

[Joel Shapiro]

Thanks Kevin.  Good to know.
Best,
-Joel

On Mar 1, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> On 2/3/06 10:37 AM, "Joel Shapiro" <jsfmp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan
>>
>> I see all the phpinfo() pages on that google search, but I'm not sure
>> where they're coming from.  Is it from people leaving a php page
>> somewhere on their server with the phpinfo() line?    Should such a
>> file always be deleted after creating/checking it?
>>
>> (I see one google result that's just a site's homepage
>> (ituneshare.com).  Does this mean they've got an index.php page
>> containing phpinfo()?)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Joel
>
> Yeah, normally the first thing you do after setting up a new PHP  
> install (or
> migrating to a new server that's out of your control) is create a  
> file to
> test the installation. Convention seems to dictate that this file  
> is always
> called phpinfo.php, and most people just upload it to the root of  
> their
> site. They should be deleted after doing their job, but some people  
> leave
> them around. If they do, they should move them out of the site  
> root, or
> rename the file. On my local or testing servers, I pretty much do  
> that.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
>
>
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