Web Apps with Tiger: Security and MySQL

Working with Web apps in Tiger is not without its own adventure. Take a look at some examples for yourself to see what I mean…

In our “Getting Started” part of this series, I was a little too fast and a little too slow. Like a confused lover, I went too fast because I didn’t want to bore you with protracted explanations and foreplay about topics we may both already know. On the other hand, it was a little too slow because we really didn’t accomplish much besides enabling PHP and verifying it worked.

In this, our second part of “Web Apps with Tiger”, we’ll be focusing on protection. We’ll replace the default PHP configuration with a more secure version, and explain some of the differences. Finally, we’ll install MySQL, our database server, and run through its own security tweaks. In the end, we’ll be satisfied, but certainly desiring more. [Read the rest]