Mark Hensler — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 06:35:21 +0000

Many hosts give you access to `/home/username` with your Document_Root set to `/home/username/public_html`. Anything within `/home/username` but outside of `/home/username/public_html` is considered outside of the web root.

m3rajk — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:23:06 +0000

i don't know. i haven't done much with getting things hosted outside fo the space i had at school. personally i think it's foolish to have everything about a client in webspace, because you don't wan their e-mail web accessable and some people (like me for instance) like to use pine (or something similar) to screen e-mails before downloading.

TonyMontana — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:06:05 +0000

"to add to that. move it outside the web dir..."

m3rajk, is it common for shared web hosts to allow clients to add folders out of the web directory? I don't have this ability with a current host.

m3rajk — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:53:59 +0000

easiest thing to do, have it .php

now they can't get it served to them in plaintxt.

to add to that. move it outside the web dir... ie:

you get ~/user/ for your dir. you put your web stuff on ~/user/web/ ave your includes in ~/user/includes/

the serving software can still get to it, as can you via ssh (telnet over ssl) but not anyone doing webbrowsing.

you have now resticted tothe machine. going beyond that... you will either need to chgrp it and chmod (640) it so that ls -la gives something like:
-rw-r----- user server file.php

this means you own it and the group it's in is the webserver. the owner has read/write. the webserver just read

Renegade — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 05:41:51 +0000

Well maybe a .htaccess file could help you out there, not sure how though...