The only thing I really have to comment on is this line:

data.txt (db connect info--needs to go in secure dir)

I'm not sure what you mean with "secure dir", but I take it you put some data in that file that shouldn't fall into wrong hands. Please note that something like this is really hard to really secure, if there are other users on the system this site runs on. Your http daemon probably runs under some user account with few permissions (nobody, or www, or whatever), but somehow, that user is supposed to be able to read that file. Another user on that machine can do the same (write a little Perl CGI app. that opens and prints the file contents). This is quite a big problem, for which I haven't really seen good solutions besides using things like RSBAC1 (Linux).

This all may not be appropriate for your specific case, but probably worth mentioning.

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b10m

1 please note that up to now, I still have been too lazy to plunge into reading up on RSBAC, and thus this might not even solve the problem ...

All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.

In reply to Re: Site file organization by b10m
in thread Site file organization by bradcathey

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