Nirjonadda
Customer
Option for improve the performance of the system overall by inlining all of the plugin code into the PHP files.
Ex: Plugin Accelerator
Ex: Plugin Accelerator
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You shouldn't have any issues, as I took steps to make sure that accessing the plugin cache files via the URL does not cause any PHP errors.
However, I would still strongly recommend placing the folder outside public_html, for the simple reason that the directory needs to be CHMOD 0777. In the event of a security breach on your site, any folder that is CHMOD 0777 is a potential storage site for malicious files (like PHP Shell scripts or database dumpers). For that reason, it's recommended to limit the number of such folders that can be accessed via the URL, unless explicitly needed.
You need to know the full path to your web directory, for example /home/Fillip H./public_html, then create a folder on the same level as public_html, so that the path becomes /home/Fillip H./plugincache.hi!
can anyone give me an example of what should the correct input be like? for the directory?
whatever i input i still get an error message:
"error:
You did not enter a valid value for this setting."
While you are technically correct, please understand that your level of knowledge regarding server administration is an order of magnitude above the level of the vast majority of our customers.This is simply not correct. The directory must be writable by the web server user. That is true. But where the web server is running as the domain/user, you do NOT have to chmod 777.
The most common case for needing chmod 0777 is where PHP is running as an Apache module. But not many hosts are running with this setup anymore. Most are using FastCGI, and PHP is running as the site owner and not as the generic apache user.
Please do not advise users to chmod 0777 unnecessarily. We are running the plugin optimizations just fine and our directory is the default 755, again, because PHP is running as our site user and the site user owns the folder.
Two steps where one would suffice, especially asking someone to contact their host just to install a vB mod. You are now asking a non-technical person to explain to a technical person why they are making the ticket; "because this vBulletin modification's installation instructions told me to".How about: create the folder. If it doesn't work, contact your host or chmod 777 the folder.
Then again, just 4 months ago 98% of hosts didn't have display_errors turned off, and were still running PHP 5.3. Now that 5.3 is fast approaching EOL (if not already), and cPanel has deprecated PHP 5.3, web hosts decide that hiding errors is a better practice than making users update their PHP scripts.98% of hosts are not going to require 777 these days.
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