Recently for a fun project, I decided to set up an automated shared web host to test my coding abilities. I decided to go with a simple name, similar to one of my other domains. I ended up with Chris Host It. Sure its cheesy and not very professional, but this is just a test project after all. The problem was the back end I went with didn’t secure PHP as well as I wanted it to by default, so I had to fix that up. So here is a quick guide on securing PHP when using Virtualmin.
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