PLUG site incident last night

[Edward Norton]

On 1/1/07, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I'll check that out.  I just read in a forum that if you put a
> php.ini in the home directory (I assume DocumentRoot) that PHP reads that
> one first.
>
> Seems like a security risk to do so.
>
> See http://www.go4expert.com/forums/showthread.php?t=397
>
> could that be so?
>
> Thanks,
> Keith


It seems possible to do so, however I've never tried it myself. I'd have to
agree with you on the security risk. It doesn't sound like a good idea to
have the php conf in your documentroot.
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