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  • Looks good, but once it’s installed, get the Write permissions OFF of the config.inc.php; we already have had one case where a Bad Guy added code to somebody’s config.inc.php to download spyware!
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      Quote from: sottwell at Dec 14, 2005, 03:48 PM

      Looks good, but once it’s installed, get the Write permissions OFF of the config.inc.php; we already have had one case where a Bad Guy added code to somebody’s config.inc.php to download spyware!

      So, at the last page of the installation, "Fail write changing to config.inc.php", where it tell you to cut and paste the script in the box back to the file config.inc.php, that is system intentional rite?
      • If the file on your remote site’s server could not be written to, then you would have to copy/paste the code into a config.inc.php file on your local machine, then using your FTP program upload the file to your /manager/includes folder.
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