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PHP Security in a shared hosting environment
February 14, 2008
Most PHP-enabled webservers are configured in such a way that the mod_php Apache module is loaded along with Apache itself, thereby allowing HTTP requests to be passed through the PHP engine, which preprocesses the data before it is sent to the client. While this configuration provides a simple, efficient way to get PHP up and running, it raises security issues when working in the most common webserver environment: shared virtual hosting.

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