[thelist] MEO stuff

Daniel J. Cody djc at members.evolt.org
Tue Feb 19 09:46:00 CST 2002


Hey Lachlan :)

Lachlan Cannon wrote:
> Ok, I have a few questions related to MEO here, and I guess
> this is the right place to ask (none others really strike
> me).
>
> 1. A lot of articles I've read, referred to keeping your
> mysql pass outside of documents, in an include file outside
> the document tree, for security, and also this way the info
> is in one file so it doesn't need changing later - which
> I'm aware isn't important on evolt, where I wouldn't be
> changing my mysql pass anyway. But... what do people here
> do to store their password/username/database name for mysql
> in their space?

I usually store mine in a 'hidden' file like .passwd or something,
outside the public_html/ tree. Depending on the setup, I'll chmod it so
only I(or my username i should say) can read/write/execute it.

> 2. Cookies set from MEO - since I'm setting them from my
> account which will be m.e.o/luminosity should the path for
> cookies be set to /luminosity so they don't interfere with
> other peoples?

i believe so

> 3. Is there anything in particular that PHP has been
> compiled without? I seemed to have trouble getting
> php_info() to work last night. (It stopped outputting all
> html at the php_info call, even though there was more after
> the PHP).

i've got a phpinfo script up in a centralized place so not every account
has to use one.. http://members.evolt.org/help/phpinfo.php

almost everything usefull that I could think of has been compiled into
PHP. ftp, wddx, xml, GD, png, jpg, xml/rpc for example.. if theres
something thats *not* compiled in that people want, i'm usually pretty
open to adding them in.

hth :)

.djc.




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