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Joomla! Web Security

You're reading from Joomla! Web Security Secure your Joomla! website from common security threats with this easy-to-use guide

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2008

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781847194886

Length 264 pages

Edition Edition

Tools

Joomla

Concepts

Application Security

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Joomla! Web Security

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

1. Preface

1. Let's Get Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Test and Development

3. Tools

4. Vulnerabilities

5. Anatomy of Attacks

6. How the Bad Guys Do It

7. php.ini and .htaccess

8. Log Files

9. SSL for Your Joomla! Site

10. Incident Management

Security Handbook

Welcome to the Laboratory!

In this section of our book, we will be discussing why and how to set up a test and development environment. It is vitally important to have a safe place to test your upgrades, additions, code fixes, and so on.

Test and Development Environment

The test and development environment is not glamorous; it is mundane and necessary. It is an established mirror site that is usually not public facing. Often, this is done locally on a server you own, an IDE, or an integrated development environment, to allow you to make mistakes, run tests against it, and so on. At other times, you may have this on a shared host. Either way, you want to mirror the production environment completely.

Why do we want to do this? Well, in our Joomla! environment, we will have a mix of technologies at work, all interoperating together. We have PHP, Apache, Linux, AJAX, HTML, third-party extensions, and possibly other types of coding. They should all work together, right?—No, many times they don...

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