RE: [cobalt-users] protecting text files in my cg-bin directory from prying eyes

[dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

2 - Put this line within the .htaccess file:  Options -Indexes
3 - Save and upload this file to your directory /home/sites/site##/web/

That will only stop the listing of a directory index. The problem, IIRC, was
that if you knew the file was called log.txt you could go to
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/log.txt and read the file. A lot of us are lazy and
when using common scripts the paths and defaults remain.
I think the idea of placing the data files for any script in
/home/sites/site#/dir instead of /home/sites/site#/web/dir is the best way
to go.

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Dan Kriwitsky