Ken
Changing the alias sounds like a good way to diver people from obvious
names, could you give me a bit of guidance on how to do this properly.
Regards
Gnome
Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc. wrote:
>
> ----- 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/
>
>
>
> ----
> Ken Marcus
> Ecommerce Web Hosting by
> Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
> http://www.precisionweb.net
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