Re: more on securing php

[Steve Suehring <fd () braingia org>]

IIS in Windows Server 2003 has been rearchitected and might be worth a 
look.  If this is for a shared hosting environment, users will probably 
want IIS.  You probably should really try to convince your friend to run 
Apache in Linux regardless.

Here's some articles on IIS 6 from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/iiswelcome.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/iisenhance.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/plan/appisoa.asp


Steve

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:58:04PM -0400, Justin Shin wrote:
> Hi guys (sorry for the late response but I'm not really supposed to worry about this stuff at work ya know :) --
>
> Thanks for all your responses. I already knew he shouldn;t be running apache as root, I have told him before to run 
> apache as a seperate user (eg. "apache") but he has yet to fix this.
>
> Once again, the safe_mode on PHP works __directly with the *nix kernel__ , meaning that it makes sure that resources 
> accessed are owned by the currentuser. However, if PHP is called by apache, which runs as root, and if root owns 
> everything ... I think ya get the picture. :) That was my dillema before.
>
> Now about IIS. I have told him to run *nix but he is stubborn as a, umm, donkey when it comes to this stuff. He 
> refuses to touch it, so I told him apache on Windows. I simply do not *trust* IIS as a stable and secure webserver. 
> At least apache is secure (to a certain degree).
>
> Also, I have thought maybe he could crate a seperate 2k3 user account per each new user, but then I don't know if 
> safe_mode works with Windows user accounts.
>
> So, basically, he shouldn't really be running apache on windows w/ php at all, right?
>
> Thanks
>
> -- Justin
>
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