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<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Having a shopping cart or content management system is an excellent option to start your own website, but not securing your system is going to give you a big heart attack if an attacker hacks into your system.</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that your application's administration panel is secured to prevent attack or abuse. Here are some of the methods you can consider implementing to protect your website.</p>
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<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Use strong passwords. A strong password should consist of non-dictionary words, with a combination of symbols, lower-case alphabets, upper-case alphabets, and numbers.</li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Change your password regularly, do not fear forgetting your password as you can easily reset them if needed, simply contact us and we will assist you.</li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Password protect your directories using htpasswd files. Twopiz's customers can make use of the cPanel control panel to implement this.<span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Refer to this video tutorial: </span></span><a href="http://twopiz.com/tutorial/passwdprotect.swf">http://twopiz.com/tutorial/passwdprotect.swf</a></li>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Here are some examples of sensitive folders that you should secure.</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><strong>Wordpress:</strong> wp-admin<br /><strong>Popular shopping carts (osCommerce, ZenCart, Cubecart):</strong> administrator<br /><strong>Joomla:</strong> administrator</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">In addition, here is an excellent page that teaches you how to secure your Wordpress:</p>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;"><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress</a></p>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Prevent execution of script files in folders that do not require them. For e.g. the /images/ folder. To do this, create a .htaccess file inside your images folder. Adding the following line will make the popular extensions (.pl, .cgi, and .php) to prevent execution.</li>
<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Type the content below into .htaccess and save the file.</p>
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<pre># ---------- To be added to .htaccess (start) ----------
AddType text/plain .pl .cgi .php
# ---------- To be added to .htaccess (end) -----------
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<p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana, Tahoma;">Or if you know what are the file extension you wish to allow, type the content below into .htaccess and save. For example, the following code will allow the following file extensions: jpeg, jpg, png, gif.</p>
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<pre># ---------- To be added to .htaccess start ----------
order deny,allow
deny from all
# ---------- To be added to .htaccess end ----------</pre>
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