[Typo3] Seperate BE database connection

Michael Stucki michael at typo3.org
Wed May 18 00:48:57 CEST 2005


Suman Debnath wrote:

> This regards a specific installation where the FE has nothing (plug-in or
> anything else) that needs write access to the DB. As you correctly
> surmised, the concern is security. Therefore, we were exploring the idea
> of having a read-only access to the DB in FE and full access in the BE.
> 
> However, today I have found a way [ maybe ] to do this. I am thinking of
> creating the same user with different IPs and with different privileges
> (For security the MySQL DB is in one server, Typo3 in another with Apache
> for BE, Apache with Typo3 files mounted as read-only in another for FE).
> This should work. What do you think?

Do whatever you find useful, but please don't recommend it to other people
as a "security enhancement" - it's not!

- michael
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