Posts tagged with htaccess
WordPress Security, Part 5: Spam Prevention
Most annoying thing when running a WordPress based website is cleaning up spam comments (there is no sure why to fully eliminate it) and removing spam blogs if you run open multisite installation of WordPress. Some of the things to help with this were already part of previous articles.
WordPress Security, Part 3: HTAccess Tips
.htaccess is directory level configuration file used by Apache (and some others) web servers. Content for this file is very similar to web server global configuration file. Htaccess is used to override settings from global configuration and can be added to any directory of the website.
Using Security Tools
GD Press Tools Pro 3.9 adds a new panel for security related tools and options. You have basic status panel with listed optional changes and recommendations to improve security with changing .htaccess rules, files and folders permissions, protection against URL injections and more.
GD Press Tools 3.9 Pro
New major release of Pro edition of GD Press Tools is here, and this time it brings several very important security changes including full HTAccess control panel and 5 htaccess related features. Security status panel is also updated, and plugin also contains several minor fixes and changes.
WordPress Security, Part 1: Hosting Environment
First thing you need to take into consideration when security of the website is concerned is the server you host your website on. There are 3 main hosting type environments and depending on what you are using there are different security related concerns you must take into account.
Better permalink rewrite code
Most blog powered by WordPress use ‘pretty’ links structure. This allows you to have hierarchical structure of the URL elements and that is much easier to read, and can even contribute to SEO results. And to achieve this WP adds rewrite code into htaccess.
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