securing PT against webhosts

Submitted by Oisin on Sun, 2006-10-29 09:53 in Price Tapestry

hi,

is there a way to encrypt the PT files on out server so that webhosts or admin or our servers can not copy and use the PT on their sites?

thanks!

Hi, In principle you could

Submitted by support on Sun, 2006-10-29 18:25

Hi,

In principle you could implement any of the commercial PHP encryption systems that can bind your script to a particular host name. The two main encryption systems are:

Source Guardian:
http://www.sourceguardian.com/

ZEND Encoder:
http://www.zend.com/products/zend_guard

Cheers,
David.

thanks david, any free

Submitted by Oisin on Sun, 2006-11-05 01:40

thanks david,

any free source encryption softwares?

what i am doing is, I delete the following files right after installation.

setup.php
setup.sql

any other tips?

I don't believe there are

Submitted by support on Sun, 2006-11-05 03:32

I don't believe there are any open source PHP encryption solutions, but removing the SQL and setup scripts is a reasonable alternative. If you wanted to do more you could always remove the admin section whilst you were not making any changes to your site.

Cheers,
David.