Wiki articles tagged with "security"

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Getting to Understand Hierarchical RBAC Scheme

Created 13 years ago by daemons, updated 9 years ago by rAWTAZ.

Authentication and Authorization is a good tutorial. Among other topics, it describes basic aspects of Yii's RBAC implementation. But however hard I read the tutorial, I couldn't understand how exactly the hierarchy works. I found how to define authorization hierarchy, how business rules are evaluated, how to configure a...

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tutorials

Use crypt() for password storage

Created 11 years ago by fsb, updated 9 years ago by fsb.

Update: This wiki has been rewritten to be in line with Yii 1.1.14. Since many of the detailed complexities are now handled by Yii, the article focuses on how the crypt() built-in function works and why it's important to use it correctly.

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tutorials

How to hide /frontend/web in url addresses on apache

Created 9 years ago by raminious, updated 9 years ago by jim..

There is an issue on Yii2 to redirecting / urls to /frontend/web.
In other words we need a way to hidden /frontend/web from addresses.
We will do this without changing Apache configuration and creating virtual host or setting document root (It's good for share hostings that we have not access to apache.conf)

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Checking for "expired" sessions/logins on the client side

Created 10 years ago by le_top, updated 9 years ago by le_top.

Getting "Expired token" errors ? Here is a solution to avoid invalid CSRF on POST or ajax requests, or user identity changes.

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Version: 1.1
Category: How-tos

Single PHP entry point with Nginx

Created 9 years ago by MadAnd, updated 9 years ago by MadAnd.

In this article I will show you how to slightly increase application security, by exploiting the fact that Yii implements the Front Controller Pattern.

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Version: all
Category: How-tos

How to write secure Yii1 applications

Created 12 years ago by François Gannaz, updated 2 years ago by François Gannaz.
  • Validate the user input (see below for details).
  • Protect (escape) your application output according to context (see below for a few output types, mostly HTML and SQL).
  • Test your application in debug mode.
    Set the constant YII_DEBUG to true (by default, it is defined in index.php) and put alongside error_reporting(E_ALL);. Then errors and warnings will stop the execution an...
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Version: 1.1
Category: How-tos