I want to give my fellow admin ftp access to a test forum

[MGM]

However, I do not want them knowing the MySQL credentials, so what I have done is moved my config.php file to a "config" folder inside the includes folder, then edited config.php inside the includes folder and removed everything, and added this:

<?php include("config/config.php"); ?>

I have also added an index.html file in the config folder.

Is this ok? Will I have any issues with vB in the future? Insofar, it seems to be working fine using this method. I do understand that whenever I upgrade I will have to do this again.

EDIT: I've found another way of doing this. I can disable FTP access of config.php itself by using CPanel, and setting the permissions (using the File Manager) to 222. Would this be fine?

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[Jake Bunce]

EDIT: I've found another way of doing this. I can disable FTP access of config.php itself by using CPanel, and setting the permissions (using the File Manager) to 222. Would this be fine?

Either way will work, but this is the method I would recommend. It's easier to just modify the permissions on the config file itself.

[MGM]

Thank you. I've done it and it seems to work fine.

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