{"id":1503,"date":"2011-08-15T01:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T01:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2011-08-15T01:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T01:21:30","slug":"website-security-noobish-tweak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supportmii.com\/pcdata\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Website Security – Noobish Tweak"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is pretty much some ways to hide information about your website. Although, there are still ways to secure this most likely…<\/p>\n

If a specific folder in your website is accessible to people and they attempt to go into a branch of your website…Then they may be able to see contents that they can use to get information or files of the site.<\/p>\n

So here is what you can do:<\/p>\n

1) Create a blank file named index.php or index.html and upload it to the directory in question.<\/p>\n

2) Edit your php.ini:<\/p>\n

; Misc
\n;
\n; Decides whether PHP may expose the fact that it is installed on the server
\n; (e.g. by adding its signature to the Web server header).\u00a0\u00a0It is no security
\n; threat in any way, but it makes it possible to determine whether you use PHP
\n; on your server or not.
\nexpose_php = Off<\/div>\n

3) .htaccess<\/p>\n

Create a file called “.htaccess” in your document root and put the following in it:<\/p>\n

“Options -Indexes” (Without the quotes)<\/p>\n

Some Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editing the expose_php will not stop the directory listing and there is a possibility that your webhost will not all you to edit the php.ini file or the .htaccess.<\/p>\n

Mainly, the expose_php method removes the information at the bottom of your directories.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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