Ok, and the second bit? i.e. what does it do when you do that?
S
On 3 Jul 2009, at 07:47, Linux-Gnome wrote:
> Steve
>
> I used /23 because my home network uses 2 subnets.
>
> Regards
>
> Gnome
>
> Steve Howes wrote:
>> On 29 Jun 2009, at 18:54, Linux-Gnome wrote:
>>> 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',
>>> );
>> Might want /24 not /23. What did it do in the end?
>>>
>>> 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 ?
>> You can't restart it. Its a website. It doesn't run as a daemon.
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