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config.php in folder or not?


russia5

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It really depends on what your config file does.

Does the file print anything to the browser?

Does the file accept any variables passed from the URL?

If you answer "no" to both of those questions, there's not really anything that can damage by accessing this file directly.

However, if you want to prevent people from loading certain files, you could check if the file was access by way of an [b]include()[/b] or directly using some code like this at the top of each file you want to protect:

[code]
if (realpath(__FILE__) == realpath($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])){
  die("You are not allowed to access this file directly!");
}
[/code]
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