Tag Archives: .htaccess

Hack Attack

By Owen | September 22, 2008

One of my websites got compromised today. AskOwen’s been running fine since the first day it went live, however today I found the website defaced. It was an interesting hack, and one that wasn’t connected to the fact that Wordpress was running on the site. I had left my .htaccess file writable and this was [...]

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Woes with .htaccess

By Owen | March 23, 2008

I learnt an important thing yesterday, while working on the WorkConnexions corporate website. Apache uses a file called .htaccess that lets you configure folder level permissions for your website. It’s not really the best way to set up this configuration, but if you are using shared hosting, then it’s your only option. Anyway, I set [...]

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