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Protecting your code on a 3rd party server?


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I have had a customer want to run my application (PHP/APACHE/MYSQL) on their server rather than a commercial hosting offering (JUSTHOST/GODADDY)

 

I am reluctant, as it means giving them access to my PHP code which could possibly be copied or distributed. 

 

Can I protect against this?

 

 

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Can I protect against this?

Short answer not really. As PHP is not a compiled language all code is in plain text format.

 

Your options are to to use a software license agreement (EULA) to protect your assets (up to you how you enforce it). Or you could use an encoder which obfuscates your code, making it harder for the end user from reading your source code.

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