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Sunday, 26 July 2009 15:06

conf_secHere you will find a simple guide that lets you move your

configuration.php out of you publc_html folder.

All script kiddies and hackers are looking for common Joomla directory

structure.

They assume that your configuration file is located  where default Joomla

installation puts it.Moving this file will make harder to be found and that

means that one of the most important php files of your Joomla

website will be more secure than before.

Keep in mind that if you use this tip you must make

any future configuration changes from the php file itself

and not from Joomla admin interface.

 

Follow the steps below and keep you Joomla website secure:

1) Backup your configuration.php

2) FTP to your Joomla Website

3) Create a directory where you will put

your configuration.php, we called it 'hideme'

4) Select and move configuration.php thats located

under public_html directory to the 'hideme'  directory.

5) Rename it as you want, we renamed it as 'con.php'

6) Create a new blank configuration.php and open it

with an editor or notepad

Put there the following code(in red):

 

<?php
require( '/home/xxxxxx/hideme/con.php' );
?>

 

Where you see xxxxxx you must put the path that

you see next to $log_path

at your original configuration.php

6) Save it and upload it to public_html directory

7) Last but not least in order to achieve maximum security

you should change your new

configurations php(con.php in our example) privileges to 444.

 

Refresh yor website and see if everything works fine.

You re done!!!