Re: [PHP] How safe is a .htaccess file?
[email protected] (Peter Lind)
| Newsgroups | php.general |
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On 17 August 2010 22:35, Robert Cummings <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10-08-17 04:23 PM, Peter Lind wrote: >> >> On 17 August 2010 22:17, tedd<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi gang: >>> >>> The subject line says it all. >>> >>> How secure is a .htaccess file to store passwords and other sensitive >>> stuff? >>> >>> Can a .htaccess file be viewed remotely? >> >> No, Apache won't serve it. > > It's a configuration setting though, and not a hard-coded feature. Set by default in your apache2.conf file which you're rather unlikely to mess with as that is not how you're setting up sites. Regards Peter -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind BeWelcome/Couchsurfing: Fake51 Twitter: http://twitter.com/kafe15 </hype>