- .htaccess file access hardening Disabled
In the .htaccess file access to certain files can be blocked to increase security on your site. For more information look in your .htaccess file.
- Website main folder is writable Yes
It's recommended that you install Elgg in a folder which isn't writable by your webserver. Malicious visitors could place unwanted code in your website.
That two comments i got whet i go to /admin/security/information. I search on community similar topics and found some solutions. But its not work.
For now i got
htaccess code:
# Elgg htaccess directives
# Don't allow MultiViews
Options -MultiViews
# Don't allow listing directories
Options -Indexes
# Follow symbolic links
Options +FollowSymLinks
# Default handler
DirectoryIndex index.php
############################
# BROWSER CACHING
# Make sure .ico has proper MIME type, allowing mod_expires to handle them.
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType image/vnd.microsoft.icon .ico
</IfModule>
# The expires module controls the Expires and Cache-Control headers. Elgg sets
# these for dynamically generated files so this is just for static files.
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>
# Conditional requests are controlled through Last-Modified and ETag headers.
# Elgg sets these on dynamically generated cacheable files so this is just for
# static files. Note: Apache sends Last-Modified by default on static files so
# I don't think we need to be sending ETag for these files.
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|mp3|flv|mov|avi|3pg|html|htm|swf|js|css|ico)$">
FileETag MTime Size
</FilesMatch>
############################
# PHP SETTINGS
# Don't forget to keep these two IfModules in sync!
#
<IfModule mod_php7.c>
# If using PHP 7.x
# limit the maximum memory consumed by the php script to 64 MB
php_value memory_limit 64M
# post_max_size is the maximum size of ALL the data that is POST'ed to php at a time (8 MB)
php_value post_max_size 8388608
# upload_max_filesize is the maximum size of a single uploaded file (5 MB)
php_value upload_max_filesize 5242880
# on development servers, set to 1 to display errors. Set to 0 on production servers.
php_value display_errors 0
</IfModule>
############################
# COMPRESSION
# Turn on mod_gzip if available
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on yes
mod_gzip_dechunk yes
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 1000
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 1000000
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 1000000
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/javascript$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript$
# Exclude old browsers and images since IE has trouble with this
mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-Agent: .*Mozilla/4\..*\["
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
</IfModule>
## Apache2 deflate support if available
##
## Important note: mod_headers is required for correct functioning across proxies.
##
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript image/svg+xml
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.[0678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>
# The following is to disable compression for actions. The reason being is that these
# may offer direct downloads which (since the initial request comes in as text/html and headers
# get changed in the script) get double compressed and become unusable when downloaded by IE.
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI action\/* no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI actions\/* no-gzip dont-vary
</IfModule>
############################
# REWRITE RULES
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
# If Elgg is in a subdirectory on your site, you might need to add a RewriteBase line
# containing the path from your site root to elgg's root. e.g. If your site is
# http://example.com/ and Elgg is in http://example.com/sites/elgg/, you might need
#
#RewriteBase /sites/elgg/
#
# here, only without the # in front.
#
# If you're not running Elgg in a subdirectory on your site, but still getting lots
# of 404 errors beyond the front page, you could instead try:
#
RewriteBase /
# If your users receive the message "Sorry, logging in from a different domain is not permitted"
# you must make sure your login form is served from the same hostname as your site pages.
# See http://learn.elgg.org/en/stable/appendix/faqs/general.html#login-token-mismatch for more info.
#
# If you must add RewriteRules to change hostname, add them directly below (above all the others)
# explicity allow access for the .well-known directory
RewriteRule "^.well-known/" - [L]
# hide all dot files/dirs (.git)
RewriteRule (^\.|/\.) - [F]
# Optional hardering rules to block access to files in the following directories
# The following coditions can be enabled, when enabling at least one the last three lines NEED to be enabled
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/actions/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/bower_components/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/elgg_config/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/engine/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/grunt/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/install/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/languages/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/vendor/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mod/(.*)/actions/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mod/(.*)/languages/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mod/(.*)/vendor/ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mod/(.*)/classes/ [OR]
# The following condition is needed in order to easily enable (some of the) previous conditions
RewriteCond 1 2
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]
# Everything else that isn't a file gets routed through Elgg
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
and subfolder as CHMOD 755 and files 644. Still no change in my admin security settings. Any solutions ? How to repair that two security sections ?
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