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Re: [cobalt-users] Where to put PHP database connection info file on RaQ3?



On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Graham Nichols wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need to made a PHP file with database connection (user and password) info,
> and place it on a non web-accessible directory to be used as an 'include'
> file for the main code. Not sure how to pull this off properly, and, as you
> can see,  I'm not too embarrassed to ask! If someone could help I'd be very
> grateful to them for filling in some of my ignorance gap (still a huge hole
> to fill :)  )
> 
> best,  Graham

say the file name was connection.inc

and your site number was 12

cdup to /home/sites/site12 directory

do a 'mkdir includes'

then 'cd includes'

Then copy your file in to that directory  so it's path would be

/home/sites/site12/includes/connection.inc


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