[FX.php List] FX Web Server Requirements

[John May]

Agreed - giving world permissions of any type on a server is a bad idea. 
  In a single-user environment, there might be some defense, but 
definitely not in a multi-user situation.

	- John


Leo R. Lundgren wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I've seen you say that previously as well. But I don't understand how 
> you can justify that? Of course it's up to you, but I don't see how you 
> can be content about having your files readable by anyone?
> 
> Even if you have just one site on one server, there may be a risk in 
> that if some other service than the www one is compromised, the attacker 
> can use the compromised account to simply read the files they want, if 
> you have them o+r. And then they can get into your database as the next 
> stop along your line of servers :-) This was just an example regarding 
> the "even if, dedicated server".
> 
> Kind regards, Leo
> 
> 
> 24 jan 2009 kl. 18.51 skrev Chris Hansen:
> 
>> FX.php works with PHP 4 and later.  No special setup really; overly 
>> restrictive permissions tends to be one of the more common problems 
>> people have (web server processes on any server run under a special 
>> user, so I generally give all users read access.)
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>
>>> I've used PHP 4 for a long time, and now use PHP 5.2.4; don't know 
>>> about Windows servers though...
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>>> On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Bentech Forums wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am probably staring right at it but I checked on the 
>>>> http://www.iviking.org/FX.php/ web site and in the FX documentation 
>>>> folder but I can not find any mention of the FX PHP web server 
>>>> requirements.
>>>>
>>>> What version of PHP is required and are their any additional PHP 
>>>> dependencies that need to be enabled when setting up a new Windows 
>>>> IIS web server?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>

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