Re: Unix links subverting Web security

• To: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif )
• Subject: Re: Unix links subverting Web security
• From: lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu (Lincoln D. Stein)
• Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:11:51 -0500
• Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

>>Don't forget that remote users can view .htaccess with ease just by asking
>>for the URL!
>>
>>        http://your-site/.htaccess
>
>No, you have 2 different directories for documents (def: htdocs) and
>conf (def: conf)  -  at least with ncsa-httpd and derivates

Yes, this is the better way to do it, but a lot of people use the alternate
per-directory file method.

========================================================================
Lincoln Stein, M.D.,Ph.D.                       lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu
Director: Informatics Core
MIT Genome Center                               (617) 252-1916
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research     (617) 252-1902 FAX
One Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
=================http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/~lstein====================

• Re: Unix links subverting Web security
• From: Karl Boyken <boyken@cs.uiowa.edu>

• Previous: Re: Unix links subverting Web security
• Next: Re: Unix links subverting Web security
• Index(es):
  • Index
  • Thread