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Wordpress get’s hacked a lot so it pays to spend a little bit of time looking at http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress. One thing I’ve looked for is how wp-config  needs to be protected.
Only allow yourself & apache access to the file by doing
chown root:www-data wp-config.php
chmod 640 wp-config.php
And make sure .htaccess in the site root is covering some basics
<IfModule [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2009 under Linux, Server. Tags: hosting, Linux, security, vps, wordpress. Comments: None