[CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2

Tue Feb 15 22:39:08 UTC 2011
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2
> 
> Keith Roberts wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Paul A wrote:
>>
>>> To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org>
>>> From: Paul A <razor at meganet.net>
>>> Subject: [CentOS] apache 2 and php 5.2
>>>
>>> Hi originally I installed php 4 on centos 5.5 and then a
>>> few repos including the remi repo to upgrade to php5,
>>> which seems to upgrade/work without any issues.
>>
>> *snip*
>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone can tell me why apache is not
>>> taking the settings from the /etc/php.ini file and it
>>> works without that file.
>>
>> Creat a php file with this as the contents:
>>
>> <head>
>> <title>php-info</title>
>> </head>
>>
>> <?php phpinfo(); ?>
>>
>>
>> Then load that file into your web browser.
>
> And when you're done, be 100% POSITIVE that you deleted it. The attacks
> that are constant will be looking for it, guaranteed. (I see them all the
> time.)

Good point Mark. Surely it could be placed in a hidden 
directory, and protected with httpd.conf directives, so 
only localhost can access it?

Keith

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