Security Settings

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Uzam
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Security Settings

Post by Uzam »

Hello,

At the moment there is a lot of "hacking" going around, people "attempting" to take over forums. Just trying to make the forum as secure as I can via the phpBB settings without having to go into doing .htaccess on folders,etc.

Anyway.

What does this mean?

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Validated X_FORWARDED_FOR header:

Sessions will only be continued if the sent X_FORWARDED_FOR header equals the one sent with the previous request. Bans will be checked against IPs in X_FORWARDED_FOR too.
Help would be appreciated.


and this

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Allow php in templates:
If this option is enabled, PHP and INCLUDEPHP statements will be recognised and parsed in templates.

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Validate Referer:
If enabled, the referer of POST requests will be checked against the host/script path settings. This may cause issues with boards using several domains and or external logins.


What would be the best settings?
Uzam
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Re: Security Settings

Post by Uzam »

Also

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Tie forms to guest sessions:
If enabled, the form token issued to guests will be session-exclusive. This can cause problems with some ISPs.
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Re: Security Settings

Post by DoYouSpeakWak »

What exacly is is that troubles you, The descriptions provided are pretty good imo for most of the stuff.

Try to read this link http://www.phpbb.com/support/documentat ... r_security

And if there is a few things you still dont understand try to be more precise.
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Re: Security Settings

Post by Uzam »

ahh thats very handy. Thank you very much!

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