Ah yes, thank you for the links, just what I was looking for. Now to use some sort of uber cool part of my brain to translate unix command line and paths to Windows command line commands and paths. ------------------------------------ Stephen Craton webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx IM: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.melchior.us ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: John Nichel [mailto:jnichel@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:09 PM To: PHP List Subject: Re: Securing Servers Stephen Craton wrote: > Thanks for the reply, and forgive me if I top post, just a bad habit. I > think my original intention has been misunderstood. :) > > I don't plan on starting my own hosting business at all, I just want to > allow access to my own personal Apache server to show the clients I am > working for the work I've completed on their project so far. Kind of like > showing the progress of the blueprints of a house. I don't plan to host the > end result, just like the constructor doesn't plan to build the house on top > of the blue prints. I seem to like analogies tonight. :) > > I have a cable connection and a custom built PC, with a hullava lot of RAM > and processing power (1gb and 3ghz). Basically, I just want to know how to > secure the server so that they don't get access to other computers within > our network. :) Well, outside of the topics discussed on these pages (you are using Apache, right? I hope?)... http://us4.php.net/manual/en/security.php http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/security_tips.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Security.html Securing the rest of your box would be too off topic (the MySQL and Apache part are OT too, but we've changed this list to the PHP/MySQL/Apache list ;) -- By-Tor.com It's all about the Rush http://www.by-tor.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php