MySQL Public User...

[gordonme]

Does Hosting Matters have a public user setup on the MySQL system?

I was thinking about site security on an insominac's eve. ... Should the PHP engine fail, everybody will see my username and password. ... Should I screw up my script, everybody will see my username and password.

A generic user/pass that I could grant only read privileges would be ideal.

[Annette]

Apache will not serve up .php/3/phtml pages at all if the parser is not running. The directive specifically requires parsing by php, and the DirectoryIndex entry specifically requires index.php/3/phtml as a valid index file. The latter helps in eliminating the risk that any joe can read the config files for a php-based piece of software (like this forum, for instance).