----- Original Message -----
From: "Linux-Gnome" <linux-gnome (at mark) nickcr.co.uk>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 10:54 AM
Subject: [coba-e:15747] Restrict phpmyadmin to local machines only
> My server has recently been getting a number of hits of people trying to
> hack into phpmyadmin (version v2.7.0-pl1) and as I do not require any
> external access to it I wanted to restrict access to all machines except
> those on my local network, after a bit of searching I added the
> following to "/home/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php"
>
> /**
> * block root from logging in except from the private networks
> */
> $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] = 'deny,allow';
> $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] = array(
> 'deny from all',
> 'allow from localhost',
> 'allow from 192.168.0.0/23',
> );
>
>
> Unfortunately this did not work (down to my novice knowledge) so I am
> after some assistance and guidance on how I should proceed.
>
> As an aside, how do I restart phpmyadmin without bouncing the box ?
>
> regards
>
> Gnome
One other option would be to change the alias from
/phpmyadmin/
to something like
/phpmyadmin2288/
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Ken Marcus
Ecommerce Web Hosting by
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net