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Prevent PHP Information From Web Access

Many common scripts such as forums make use of a single file detailing the connection details to your database or other secure files.

Modern implementations of shared hosting do not readily allow php information to be accessed from outside of a set number of directories, in our case, httpdocs because of open_basedir restrictions.

We can however, on request, adjust this limitation so that PHP information can be placed in the non-web-accessible FTP tree. This will ensure that the information cannot be read from unauthorised web visitors. Customers will still not be able to write via their FTP clients to this FTP tree but a simple request will allow us to place this file for you.