Security

One major thing you want to ensure when creating a site of your own, is security. You want to protect you and your visitors from any potential acts against you or them. Some things seem simple, others can slip by even the most experienced of webmasters.

First of all, every directory that contains sensitive information or will allow access to management functions of you site you want to password protect. Also directories that contain e-mail addresses of users, from mailing lists, chat rooms, message boards, etc., you will probably want to encrypt and hide them from search engines both internally and externally using a robots.txt file. On a UNIX based system, be sure you have file permissions set correctly, so others will not be able to write data to files that they shouldn't be.

Last but not least, exercise common sense. Don't share you passwords with anyone, period.

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