public-html

Im creating a website and i am very OCD when it comes to security so i heard that if you store all of your .php files outside of your public_html folder and invoke them with another .php file that is inside your public_html folder then your risk of an attack is lower. Is this true, if so how would i do this. I read something about using .htaccess but I'm not sure if that was the correct way to do it. I though i could maybe use include but im not sure how include works with parameters. There isn't a huge amount of extra protection offered by this strategy. Mainly, it ensures that if your server

Simple question, but for some reason I couldn't find the exact answer on Google: I have a fresh Ubuntu install on Slicehost, and would like to make a public directory in my home dir for a simple website containing a bunch of static HTML files. How do I do this? Is it just a matter of typing mkdir public_html and setting the permissions, or is there a cleaner way? (I remember in the past I've had issues where every time I copied a file into my public_html directory, I would have to manually set its permissions, which was quite frustrating.) rz. Assuming you've already installed apache, do the

$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] returns /usr/local/apache/htdocs/ is there a way to get /home/user/public_html/ The problem is that I have to write a script which can be in the public_html folder or a sub-folder of the public_html folder. The script should save uploaded files into a folder inside public_html directory(say images). In other words let us say that my file is test.php and the path to it is /home/user/public_html/test/test.php. And there is a folder /home/user/public_html/images where files uploaded via test.php have to be saved. I don't know where the test.php file will be run. For