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MySQL Security on Media Temple DV, Part 2

This is a serious ‘Playing With Fire’ blog post. Don’t do this on a server you can’t afford to restore to factory defaults. I was doing some reading today about securing MySQL and I learned about about a MySQL function … Continue reading

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Securing MySQL on a Media Temple DV Server

I’m no pro at securing MySQL databases but I know that you shouldn’t use the full access user from within PHP. The following is a description of how I create a second, limited MySQL user for PHP applications hosted on … Continue reading

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Storing Files Above the Web Root on Media Temple DV

Updated: I have written an update for this post for Media Temple’s DV 4 offering. We developed a web app recently that allowed users to upload JPEG images to the server. Best practise for uploads says that uploaded files should … Continue reading

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