If you're tring to get Apache to run under your user id (so that it can access files and directories owned by you), you should take a look at the suexec mechanism. If you're further looking to improve your security, maybe consider running apache in a chrooted/jailed environment. As for the datbase logs, you should never log username/password information (unless you're debugging), if you further want to secure your logs you could write to a named pipe and have another process (running as a different user) read from the pipe and log to a file not readable by your user.

Securing a website properly is a rather large topic and covers lots of areas (network security, host security, programming securely). There are lots of books on the subject though.


A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines. -- Alan Cox

In reply to Re: Structuring a Web site and security issues by tirwhan
in thread Structuring a Web site and security issues by bradcathey

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