theanalyzer

Thank you Reaper-X, that has done the job properly.

Reason I checked everything is because that’s what I was told to do by someone who obviously should know better. I have not looked them up to see what their correct usage is. Perhaps I will now.

Dear spencerp,

Your idea of the free help service is absolutely fantastic. This is the sort of voluntary effort that builds on the excellent reputation of WordPress.

I just hope that you don’t become so snowed under with requests that some ungrateful whingers maight make negative churlish posts because you were unable to repond in five minutes!

Testimonials? Goodness me – Y E S !!

[ . . . ?? building up to a request for help on an install problem that I spent 14 hours trying to solve yesterday! ?? ]

I share your caution, TheAuthor, and it generates unease in my little paranoid heart to see any confidential data at all in the public area of my site. Since I installed WP for the first time yesterday afternoon, this has been a niggling concern.

Whilst I take on board the reassurances posted here by other contributors, I feel that some unforeseen circumstance over the years could change our understanding of what is secure and what is not. I prefer to take no chances and therefore I am moving the confidential connection data to a secure area above my public pages.

Thank you for reminding me of Kevin Yank’s book, which I looked up p. 171. Like you, I am not competent in PHP but I can follow the gist of a piece of code, having been a programmer in my youthful years. I have copied your solution.

Just wondering if there is also an alternative method using .htaccess?