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Lynford Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: 14 December 2004 Status: Offline Points: 171	Post Options Post Reply Quote Lynford Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Security. Posted: 11 May 2006 at 11:50am
	Due to a rather overzealous webhost and to keep my forums tidy, I quite often download my (Access) Database, clean it up and then Upload it. When I Upload the DB, anyone trying to log on to my Forum gets an error message which tells them exactly where my DB is and what it is called. Despite it being in a Private folder on my Webhost, am I at risk because of this and is there any way I can get some kind of Default page to come up at this time, rather than the details of my Database ? Many thanks.

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 May 2006 at 11:59am
	As long as your database is in a private folder then you will be safe from hackers. If you want extra security you can disabled the detailed message in the error message by editing the file includes/setup_options.asp and set the following variable to false as shown below:- Const blnDetailedErrorReporting = False
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Lynford Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: 14 December 2004 Status: Offline Points: 171	Post Options Post Reply Quote Lynford Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 May 2006 at 12:05pm
	Brilliant - Thanks Bruce.

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