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Hello, My script uses the user 'www-data' (my webserver) when connecting to the MySQL Database, while I tell it not to. <?php include ('config.inc.php'); $connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password); mysql_select_db($database, $connection); $shorturls = mysql_query('SELECT shorturl FROM `' . $prefix . 'urls`'); $shorturl = rand(100000, 999999); foreach(mysql_fetch_array($shorturls) as $row) { if($row['shorturl']==$shorturl) …

Hi there, A website I'm admin for has a serious security issue. Everytime I make changes to a php script, I chmod -R 777 the var/www directory to make the script work. And if I change this to 775, the photo upload feature on the website doesn't work. So my …