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Securing Directory

Started 12 years ago by Lil | 7 posts |


  1. Lil
    Member

    Hello,
    I tried to secure my admin directory, but it affects all the forms, is there anyway I can get around that?

    Thank You

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. Saghalie
    Pro Member

    hmmm, need a little more info. What exactly did you secure and with what commands? Are you using LINUX or windows or some other OS?

    AFAIK - your ./Data dir should be set to writable by the webserver.

    Regards,

    Saghalie
    http://www.kcmhosting.com

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. Lil
    Member

    Thank You for your reply Saghalie :) what I mean is sometimes host companies allow you to add some extra security to your website by allowing you to password protect your directory, for example if the admin directory for a website was

    www.example.com/admin the administratior would go and manage the website through there but to make it harder for the ip would allow you to add extra security

    the only problem is when I do that for my machform directory

    www.example.com/machform-admin it affects the forms and all the forms requrie a password lol

    I was wondering if there were to be a more specific directory to (extra) password protect my administration for machform

    Thank You for your help

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. yuniar

    If you are trying to protect machform folder using htaccess protection, this will affect all your forms as well. I suggest to simply use a very strong password for your MachForm.

    MachForm Founder

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. AMurray
    Pro Member

    Add to Yuniar's reply, if you need it to be secure, would also suggest you purchase an SSL certificate (your host can arrange that), so your URL will begin with the https:// 128/256 bit encryption (depending on which type of security certificate you purchase for your domain),

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Lil
    Member

    I have one, Thank You

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. Vitus
    Member

    I think it will be a good idea to separate the admin folder and user accessible forms/folders. This will create extra protection for the admin scripts. Besides, it will be also helpful if the login can have captcha function to add further protection. This will stop someone writing a script to guess the admin password.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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