On Jan 22, 2008 4:21 PM, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 22, 2008 3:57 PM, Jason Pruim <japruim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Hi, Jason! > > > Been doing some reading on security and have decided that I should be > > storing my include files outside of the document root... Which I > > understand how to do it, but what I'm wondering, is say I write the > > Next Killer App (tm). How would I port that code easily off of my > > server and put it into a downloadable file for the millions of people > > who will download and run the Next Killer App (tm)? > > Absolutely. It's called a README file. Lots of well-designed > applications keep the includes out of the web root, as they should. > They're just included in a directory in the tarball, zip file, or > whatever is being used to package and distribute the code, with > installation instructions in the README or INSTALL file (or a similar > counterpart). > > > Err... That doesn't make it very clear... > > Yes it did. Leave it alone, it'll grow. > > > Is there a program for > > Macintosh or Unix that I could use to grab all the source code from > > where ever I have it set? Or would I need to make my own? Or should I > > just quit being lazy and grab it my self? :) > > There's always SVN and CVS for file structure and system > architecture, but a zip file or tarball would suffice. And you > certainly don't want them downloading the files from the actual > location on your server, since that defeats the purpose of placing > them outside of the web root. > > Just one example of this is how WHM AutoPilot handles the > situation. There's a database directory named mib_data that is > included in the zip file with all of the web files. The > README/INSTALL document tells you to place that folder outside of the > web root (for example, if on a cPanel or same-structure server, make > it ~/mib_data/). Very easy to understand and deploy. > > -- > </Dan> > > Daniel P. Brown > Senior Unix Geek and #1 Rated "Year's Coolest Guy" By Self Since > Nineteen-Seventy-[mumble]. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I use Zend Studio. When a php file includes another file zend automatically includes that file in my current project. This is a nice feature. -- shout at http://me.cmyweb.net/ comment on http://talk.cmyweb.net/ All time available for Hire/Contract/Full Time :)
