so i finished up a php/mysql site recently. Before i try to push it i figured it try to secure it up as best as i could. So i googled a few things "php security" "mysql security" "basic website security" and i saved all the good pages i found, plan to sit down this weekend, read everything, test what was done and instruct some things to the coder he needs to change.
Any suggestions on how to do this the most effectively without being a technical person? It would be great if my best friend was a hacker but this is not the case. Many people say eh dont worry just get it going, but i disagree completely as most of the business is run off the users and having it stolen time after time would be a big problem. As a matter of a fact if someone got in they could just delete things off the site like directories and such. If a user signs up from "alabama" and then you delete the "alabama" directory, there ad goes down, i have to go back into the backend and select a new state for it to go live again.. is that normal?
I think along with taking security measures i really need to learn about back ends because i have no experience and considering everything was custom, i can see already many things are going to be more time consuming than needed. Again, im not running an out of the box solution so its probably not possible to just get what i want pre made, but i do not even know how to instruct it to be built. Experience working at a big tech company probably would of helped things like this, damn.
Any suggestions on how to do this the most effectively without being a technical person? It would be great if my best friend was a hacker but this is not the case. Many people say eh dont worry just get it going, but i disagree completely as most of the business is run off the users and having it stolen time after time would be a big problem. As a matter of a fact if someone got in they could just delete things off the site like directories and such. If a user signs up from "alabama" and then you delete the "alabama" directory, there ad goes down, i have to go back into the backend and select a new state for it to go live again.. is that normal?
I think along with taking security measures i really need to learn about back ends because i have no experience and considering everything was custom, i can see already many things are going to be more time consuming than needed. Again, im not running an out of the box solution so its probably not possible to just get what i want pre made, but i do not even know how to instruct it to be built. Experience working at a big tech company probably would of helped things like this, damn.
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