htaccess protecting my vbseocp?

Hi im thinking of htaccess protecting my vbseo, can i do this without effecting my vbseo performance at all?

Cheers

Originally Posted by Kayz

Hi im thinking of htaccess protecting my vbseo, can i do this without effecting my vbseo performance at all?

Cheers

I'm not sure if you can do that, since that file is called in other scripts it may prompt for the password to access any section of the site that uses vbseo.

just make sure its 644 when your done playing with settings.

that way, even if they break your password, they can't write anything to the config file.

Originally Posted by briansol

just make sure its 644 when your done playing with settings.

that way, even if they break your password, they can't write anything to the config file.

I see but not htaccess protect?

it's pointless, really...

considering, you use htaccess to direct to an htpassword file to do the protecting in the first place


you CAN'T view an htaccess file by normal means anyway.

try it

yourdomin.com/forums/.htaccess

nothing happens

I think they want to protect the vbseocp.php file and not the actual .htaccess file (unless im confused or just read your post wrong)

Originally Posted by FightRice

I think they want to protect the vbseocp.php file and not the actual .htaccess file (unless im confused or just read your post wrong)

That is correct.

1. CHMOD 644 the PHP file, as Brian said above.

2. You can also IP protect the vBSEOCP via .htaccess :

Code:

<Files vbseocp.php>

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
allow from put.your.IP.here

# Example code :
# allow from 121.145.245.102
# Or if the last octet changes everytime you connect to internet,
# ie, if you have a Dynamic IP, then :
# allow from 121.145.245.

</Files>

Originally Posted by Shadab

1. CHMOD 644 the PHP file, as Brian said above.

2. You can also IP protect the vBSEOCP via .htaccess :

Code:

<Files vbseocp.php>
 
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
allow from put.your.IP.here
 
# Example code :
# allow from 121.145.245.102
# Or if the last octet changes everytime you connect to internet,
# ie, if you have a Dynamic IP, then :
# allow from 121.145.245.
 
</Files>

Yes i know how to protect, i just wanted to know whether it will affect my vbseo in any way or form if i had htaccess protected it.

Protecting the vbseocp.php file will not affect any of the vBSEO's site operations/performance.