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Started 2 years ago by Forestwander
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Forestwander
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Hello,

I am kind of paranoid when it comes to security and am trying to take extra steps to secure my blog.

My wordpress install has been relocated and all is working fine.

However, the next time that I post a new image it is going to reveal the directory of my plugins, admin and wordpress core files in the image URL, and I am trying to keep this hidden.

I noticed that there is a "Image Directory" field under further options and this is default to wp-content.

So I tried to define an absolute path such as "/server/user/pub_html/wp-content" in this field and it simply appended this to the current install directory that I am trying to keep hidden.

Is there a way that I can define the wp-content folder 1 directory up from the core wordpress files install folder, instead of 1 directory under the install?

Thank you for your help, and again I love this plugin it has made my work so much easier!

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

stupid question, maybe i am missing something: how can you keep this hidden, the wordpress folder structure is anyway publicly known, no?

imgdir outside of wp-content should work with a relative path but wouldn't suit your purpose either because the path would then be sth like path/to/your/wordpressroot/../newimgdir

further, right now i would not advise you to change the imgdir if you already have posted photos with a different imgdir setting. the reason is that currently original files are not moved around automatically when changing imgdir, so you will end up with original photo files at different places. this will get fixed soon, i just didn't yet have the time to do it properly. so until then i guess it is best if you define your imgdir once when you setup your blog and stick to it.

Posted 2 years ago #
Forestwander
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No your question is not stupid, some folks have not heard of this I am sure.

The wp-content folder is what I am leaving as public.

The rest of the WP core files such as wp-admin are what is in a hidden directory.

Below are some tips for security from Word Press.

Including Editing the wp-config, session keys, moving the wp-content folder, etc...

The are just a few tricks that obscure the "normal" public structure and make it more difficult (still not impossible) for exploits, etc.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

I do not need to move the image directory outside of wp-content, I need to specify a different path in the photoQ plugin to wp-content.

Could you tell me where I can define this in the code?

Thanks

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
Key Master
i guess that if you change the following functions inside classes/PhotoQOptionController.php you could make it work like you want:
- getImgDir()
- getCacheDir()
- getMyPresetsDir()
i say, "i guess" because i did not have time to test and i did not have a lot of time to look into this as i am just leaving for vacation. so i guess you will have to hack on your own. i think what causes problems in your case is the fact that the ABSPATH is prepended to the whole thing. i will try to look into it when i come back, looks like this could be interesting for other users as well. please keep me updated on your progress. thanks.
Posted 2 years ago #
Forestwander
Member

Cool, OK.

Have a good vacation.

Posted 2 years ago #
Forestwander
Member

Unfortunately, I could not get this to work.

I will continue to test on a development server.

But I could not find this function "getMyPresetsDir()"

In this file "classes/PhotoQOptionController.php"

Yes, you are correct in that the ABSPATH is prepended to the whole thing.

If I could define the path without the prepended path in front of what I define it would work great.

Thank you for any help.

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

This is now supported in PhotoQ 1.8.3

Posted 2 years ago #

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