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Re: MYSQL and PHP

from [Kevin Johnson] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: MYSQL and PHP
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 22:16:23 -0400 

On May 15, 2006, at 2:07 PM, John Madden wrote:

Hi,

First off i'm not a PHP programmer but I would like to
know the following:

Is it standard to use INC files to store MYSQL db
connections settings (username and password)?

What else could you do to make this "safer" ?

I presume Apache looks for files with extention
"*.INC" and does not processes them, right ?

Thanks you 

Hi-

No, Apache, by default will treat inc files as plain text and hand them to the browser. If I need to have files that are web accessible and included, I use the php extension to force them to be processed.

Kevin
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