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Lizard King · #22 10-19-2008, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

that would still ot prevent anyone with server access (!!!) to read the config file. The only solution in this case is to have your host increase security or switch hosts.

No it will prevent them to read if you correctly chmod and chown the file so nobody expect root access can read the file. Example , lets say we move config.php to /etc/vb the following will prevent anyone expect root access to read the file.

Code:

# chown -R apache:root /etc/vb
# chmod 0640 /etc/vbulletin/config.php

I believe Floren had an article about this within article section , yep here it is :
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=148209

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