apache and rewritten config files
(Apologies in advance if you have already seen this message. I thought
I mailed it, but it never showed up on the list that I saw.)
It's possible that I have gremlins in my machine ...
Okay, so, I don't look at the php pages on this machine all that often.
But every now and then, I do so and find that -- poof! -- apache has
forgotten how to render php, and consequently, anyone in the world can
see the source to various pages. Not to mention that they *can't* see
the pages in question.
It happens rarely enough that I have to re-discover how to fix it, which
usually involves LoadModules and/or mime types ... but still ...
Why is it happening at all? How can I protect myself?
(I'm running apache 1.3.27.1-3 and php 4:4.3.2+rc3-6 on unstable.)
No one but me has root, and I am reasonably certain that the box hasn't been
compromised ... and if it had been, I'd be pretty surprised if the only
change was a once every several month minor tweak to apache's conf files!
One other note ... I've had these config files around for a very long
time, and they actually came from a redhat *shudder* machine originally,
so I have 3 apache conf files: httpd.conf, access.conf, and srm.conf.
--
monique
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