Secure Admin Section

Nate · 13 Aug 2006 at 11:13

After my site got hacked i have decided to be less lazy and write my own site again. I was just wondering which method people think i should use to secure the admin pages of the site.

The two options i can think of are:

1. Goin into my cpanel and passwording the admin folder (how secure is this?)
2. Using a login script i have written

What do you guys use?

Inquisitor · 13 Aug 2006 at 11:39

The .htaccess method (the former) is probably the most secure, as it's controlled by the server itself, and the passwords are encrypted and stored above the web root.

What are you using in your current log in script?

Craig321 · 13 Aug 2006 at 15:15

NaTe said:
After my site got hacked i have decided to be less lazy and write my own site again. I was just wondering which method people think i should use to secure the admin pages of the site.

The two options i can think of are:

1. Goin into my cpanel and passwording the admin folder (how secure is this?)
2. Using a login script i have written

What do you guys use?

Rather use the cPanel password protection (htaccess)

toString · 13 Aug 2006 at 16:34

What's the windows/IIS version of htaccess?

fluiduk · 13 Aug 2006 at 17:04

What are you using to make the site.

The admin features in dreamweaver are quite good

Aaron