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Security Tutorial  Protect Your Forums From Hackers
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Conor Calby
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 Protect Your Forums From Hackers
Hacking is something that worries most of us, in this tutorial, I will give tips on how to protect your forum from hackers!

1)Download using an FTP client /inc/config.php from your forum and open it in a text editor (NetBeans, NotePad, ETC).

Inside the config.php file, you will see
PHP Code:
$config['admin_dir'] = "admin"; 
Change it to
PHP Code:
$config['admin_dir'] = "newadmindir"; 
(Where "newadmindir", replace with your own new directory (For Example: chocolate, pop, dog, ETC)

Save that config.php file and re-upload it to the inc folder and overwrite the old config.php file.

Now, go to public_html/[forumroot] and change the name of the "admin: folder

Test it out by going to your forum homepage and then try accessing the admincp. Did it work?



2)Download and install this plugin to your forum.


3)Take regular database backups.


This should help prevent hacking, not make it impossible.

Regards,

--Conor

euantor Wrote:Also, password protect your admin directory via .htaccess (or via cpanel ;P) and make sure to set all the correct CHMOD permissions.
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04-19-2010, 06:36 AM
WMM
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
Thanks for advise =]
04-19-2010, 02:20 PM
thalada
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
gonna try this
04-22-2010, 11:27 PM
coder
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
Yea ive done this along time ago , very good idea.
04-24-2010, 03:02 AM
R41N
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
Thanks now my forums can have better security.
05-02-2010, 12:57 AM
ms365
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
You can also add the super admins thing.
05-06-2010, 05:26 AM
euantor
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
You could also password protect the admin directory via .htaccess and, for extra security, lock access to the admin directory to a limited number of IP addresses only. I just password protect mine with a randomly generated password and my admin directory's name consists of random letters and numbers.
05-06-2010, 08:04 AM
alfityus
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
Thanks
05-09-2010, 02:52 AM
telters
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
Thanks for the tutorial. I know I sometimes worry about my forum's security, and although I keep backups, trying to restore everything all over again would be a pain. Anything I can do to prevent that is great !
06-02-2010, 01:04 PM
Don+
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RE: Protect Your Forums From Hackers
It was already posted by Zash, yeah !??
08-21-2010, 10:18 AM
 




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