If you don’t want to advertise for hackers that your site is WorPpress powered, try to remove the meta generator tag from Wordpress.
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.x.x” />
I tried more solutions but only one work properly to me.
First, locate the functions.php file in your theme. Open it and insert the following lines to the file:
// Remove [...]
Digest authentication is more secure than Basic authentication, because using digest authentication, your password is never sent across the network in the clear, but is always transmitted as an MD5 digest of the user’s password. In this way, the password cannot be determined by sniffing network traffic.
Resources:
Debian 5 Lenny
Apache 2.2.9
Enable mod_auth_digest and disable mod_auth_basic
Apache module [...]
Joomla generated HTML pages contain the following meta tag:
<meta name=”generator” content=”Joomla! 1.5 – Open Source Content Management” />
Note: 1.5 is the Joomla! version.
First of all, I love Joomla. I use it since 2005 when a group of Mambo developers (the core team) left Mambo and started Joomla . So I am a big Joomla fan. But [...]
Never use your MySQL root account to running databases. The root account is a privileged account which should only be used for admin procedures. And also unadvisable to add global MySQL server privileges to those database users who connect to a MySQL database from an application/script (Joomla, Drupal, etc). Better if you setup these users separated. [...]
If your hosting provider doesn’t give you any directory password protection tool, but you want to protect your Joomla! admininistrator directory with an encrypted password, do the following.
1, Create an empty file .htaccess in your Joomla! administrator directory. Put the following lines in it:
AuthType Basic
AuthName “Joomla Administrator”
AuthUserFile /full/path/to/joomla/administrator/.htpasswd
<Limit GET>
require valid-user
</Limit>
Modify the /full/path/to/joomla to your Joomla [...]
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