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[Matthew Kaufman]

Apache's mod_websecurity and Snort will help...

On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Chris Snyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Oh, and lock down your file permissions.  The web server shouldn't be
>>> allowed to write to any files or directories.
>>>
>>
>> Except when it really needs to, like for writing data to a file-based
cache,
>> or accepting file uploads. How do you recommend handling those cases?
>
> On a shared host? Don't use files for those things, use your database
instead.
>
> For cache you can use SQLite if you really feel like staying in the
> filesystem. For uploaded files, store them in a table in MySQL.
>
> As a bonus, this makes backups easier. All you have to do is back up
> the database and you're done.
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