Security question

[gruntre69]

My web host says that he made some changes to the server to increase security.

I found this out because the define pages editor stopped working giving this message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /Back0ff1ce/define_pages_editor.php on this server.


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Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.waycool.com.au Port 443

He advised me to make additions to the .htaccess file as follows and this solved the problem.

</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine off
</IfModule>

Can anybody advise if this change to the .htaccess file would adversely affect the security of my admin folder. If so I could still use dreamweaver to make future edits to the define pages.
Cheers

[DrByte]

That's acceptable.
It looks like you've already renamed your admin folder for greater security, so making this change should not be a problem.

You can see mod_security issues discussed in various places in these forums, if you want more information on what it's all about.