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[nycphp-talk] Shared host db credentials solution

Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg adam at trachtenberg.com
Tue Aug 15 14:25:19 EDT 2006


On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Aaron Fischer wrote:

> You don't have your own VirtualHost area.  It might be worth trying in
> your own <Directory> area to see if that fulfills your needs.  Another
> way might be to put it in an .htaccess file - .htaccess files aren't
> just for password protecting areas!

But .htaccess files are globally readable, so any account on the
system can read it. That doesn't make any sense if they're worried
about people "hacking" the apache account.

-adam

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