From: Frank G. <fg-...@da...> - 2012-10-27 04:16:04
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On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:02:36AM -0400, Joyce Dowling wrote: > On Oct 26, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Frank Guthausen wrote: > > Do you use SuPHP or something similar at the webserver for protection > > and security reasons? > > I don't know what SuPHP is, so I guess the answer is "no". SuPHP is a security extension for running several customers' websites on one webserver. It protects customers from/against each other. This is the basic idea on a non-technically level. > The site is insecure and I know it, but it's using a robot noindex > with no links to it. Does that make my whole server at risk? I'm doing > this as a volunteer for a non-profit. The robots.txt or robots meta tag stuff is related to search engines. This is a complete different issue. You may think about that another day, this is not your main problem right now. > > You need access to /etc/php5 or something similar > > I have an etc folder outside the web root, but there's nothing that > looks like php anything in there - just passwd, quota, & shadow. Is this a dedicated server (I guess not), a managed server or just webspace at some hosting service? This is important to find out the appropriate permission model. A lot of trouble just disappears once the permissions are set correctly. The core details of this are due to improvements actually as you can see by date of documentaion and software. regards Frank |