Um, excuse me if this turns out to be a totally ignorant posting lol but I'm a noob who doesn't want to get hacked to bits when I go live with a forum. I'm using H-Sphere and the forum software ( phpbb 3.0.7 ) is shooting up these messages at me:
Your config file (config.php) is currently world-writable. We strongly encourage you to change the permissions to 640 or at least to 644 (for example: chmod 640 config.php).
The other is about turning off 'Register_globals' ( phpAdmin I think? )
With the first one, would this be in the phpbb folder somewhere as seen through Filezilla? Just a case of opening with Wordpad and re-uploading the edited file?
As for the 'Register_globals', I really haven't a clue.
Any help much appreciated
Regards,
Tony.
PS: Tried asking my webhost several times - one of the bigger players - but to no avail.
Your config file (config.php) is currently world-writable. We strongly encourage you to change the permissions to 640 or at least to 644 (for example: chmod 640 config.php).
The other is about turning off 'Register_globals' ( phpAdmin I think? )
With the first one, would this be in the phpbb folder somewhere as seen through Filezilla? Just a case of opening with Wordpad and re-uploading the edited file?
As for the 'Register_globals', I really haven't a clue.
Any help much appreciated
Regards,
Tony.
PS: Tried asking my webhost several times - one of the bigger players - but to no avail.