Merge pull request #1196 from ibennetch/1528

Feature request 1528: Documentation refers to .htaccess files that have ...
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Marc Delisle 2014-05-28 12:26:57 -04:00
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a login dialog if using :term:`HTTP` or
cookie authentication mode.
#. You should deny access to the ``./libraries`` and ``./setup/lib``
subfolders in your webserver configuration. For Apache you can use
supplied :term:`.htaccess` file in that folder, for other webservers, you should
configure this yourself. Such configuration prevents from possible
subfolders in your webserver configuration.
Such configuration prevents from possible
path exposure and cross side scripting vulnerabilities that might
happen to be found in that code.
happen to be found in that code. For the Apache webserver, this is
often accomplished with a :term:`.htaccess` file in those directories.
#. It is generally a good idea to protect a public phpMyAdmin installation
against access by robots as they usually can not do anything good
there. You can do this using ``robots.txt`` file in root of your