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How can i hide the fact that the web pages are written in PHP?

Posted 30-Sep-10 9:18am

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Peter_in_2780 · Answer 1 · 2010-09-30T15:42:00

It depends on what webserver and/or CMS you are using.
In Apache, you can use an AddHandler to make all .html files be processed by PHP. Then you can rename all your .php files to .html so people can't see .php in the URL. You may need to modify your server signature to remove references to PHP.
If you run a CMS like Drupal, it has its own ways of hiding the fact it's all PHP. Essentially, it parses the URL and generates the content, rather than simply mapping the URL structure to filesystem structure. You can do a similar thing yourself, but it's a lot of work.
The most important thing is to have no bugs that expose PHP! This is not as easy as it sounds.
In the end, you've got to ask yourself why. So what if anyone can find out that you use PHP. If you do it right, they can't see your PHP code, but only the HTML it generates.

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