I recently migrated to a new server (CentOS with plesk 11.0) and installed a new SSL certificate for my domain. Problem now is that any IE user has the error "there is a problem with this website's security certificate" when…
I am trying to write a script that will let me identify bots that are trying to flood my oscommerce site, but some bots change their IPs frequently so I cant really use the IP to ban them. I was…
I am on a Parallels/Plesk VPS host, and this is a really newbie question. The webroot is at: /var/www/vhosts/my-domain-name/httpdocs There is also a path called: /var/www/vhosts/my-domain-name/private/ But PHP scripts can't seem to read files in there. From my understanding any…
I'm unfortunately once more dealing with a hacked site on a Linux Plesk server. While the issue is fixed with FTP access changed (it got down to the famous Filezilla FTP codes hack on a PC) I'd appreciate to know…
I am developing a client-side application in C# that will communicate with a server (php page) for credentials and for some critical services. I am wondering if it's dangerous to store a well hashed password on the client's machine? By…
My OSCommerce site includes a separately programmed feature for which I use SQL tables. I've decided to host its tables on a remote site offering free SQL accounts. I'd like to know if there could be any disadvantages to this…
Was digging through the OSCommerce files on my site and found a file in the /images folder that I don't ever remember seeing before. I haven't checked the original install package, but I suspect this isn't a part of it.…
I have an ASP.Net website running on IIS7. The developers have created a CMS in the admin folder, which allows the website admin to create/edit/delete pages. They have said: "The read/write permission should be given to the user that requires…
open_basedir limits the files that can be opened by PHP within a directory-tree. I am storing several class libraries and configuration files outside of my web root directory. This way the web server does not make them publicly accessible. However…