PHP Security
Posted in: Beginner information | May 19th, 2008
Php by nature is unfortunatly very insecure by default. There are many ways to help make it more secure for a shared hosting enviroment by running modules like mod_security. Another way to do this is by disabling the actual functions that many of these exploits call on. This can be done by simply editing the php.ini and restarting apache. Though you should not have any trouble with the disabled functions if webpages do start to have problems you can always add the function back. Most times you will get an error on a webpage that will tell you exactly which is causing the problem.
Updated August 9th to include even more php functions to disable.