[NTLUG:Discuss] Uploading to a web site.

[David Stanaway]

Be very wary of omitting security steps under the assumption that your
firewall or your .htaccess blocks out the bad guys.  It can be quite
easy to accidentally block the use of the firewall or an apache upgrade
changes the options so that .htaccess files are not processed etc... and
leave you wide open.


steve wrote:
> brian at pongonova.net wrote:
>> Steve--
>>
>> Personally, after test-driving several different PHP-based galleries,
>> I settled on Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com). If you want to roll
>> your own, you'll have to address a number of issues, such as
>> authentication, session management, server security, etc.  Life's too
>> short to continually reinvent the wheel...
> 
> The trouble here is that I really do need to do something like that.
> 
> I'll be able to restrict access to the web page to only people I trust
> so I'm not too worried about all of those tricky issues.
> 
> But I need to take the uploaded photos and do stuff to them - so an
> off-the-shelf gallery or Wiki or whatever isn't a solution.
> 
> I just need to understand the basic priciples of how the heck this
> trick is pulled.
> 
> 
> 
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